Re: Firefox 140.6.0 --- no sound

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:32:31 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/21/25 9:24 PM, Andrew Warshall wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:05:50 -0600
> > "Bruce Dubbs" ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List)
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 12/21/25 7:51 PM, Andrew Warshall ([email protected]
> >> via blfs-support Mailing List) wrote:  
> >>> Hi-
> >>>
> >>>      Just did my roughly-annual (B)LFS reinstall and Firefox
> >>> (compiled with ALSA) won't play sound. ALSA itself is working,
> >>> since mpg123 plays fine. But, when I attempt to play a video with
> >>> sound in Firefox, I get errors like:
> >>>
> >>> ALSA lib pcm.c:8865:(snd_pcm_set_params) [error.pcm] Sample format
> >>> not available for PLAYBACK: Invalid argument
> >>>
> >>>      This seems to be saying that there's an audio codec missing;
> >>> but not sure I should believe that. And, if I should, any way to
> >>> track down what it is?  
> >>
> >> What version of alsa-lib/alsa-util are you using?  There was an
> >> upstream problem and we just updated those packages to version
> >> 1.2.15.1 to fix a non-sound problem.  
> 
> > alsa-lib 1.2.15, alsa-utils 1.2.15.1. Do I need to update alsa-lib
> > to 1.2.15.1 as well?  
> 
> Yes.  That's causing the sound problem.  After installing, just run
> speaker-test to see if you get some what noise.  If you do, then you
> should be good.
> 
>    -- Bruce
> 

Done but still no success. Speaker-test works, but that worked before
as well; only firefox was an issue.

           -Andrew Warshall


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