Re: Firefox 140.6.0 --- no sound

On 12/21/25 9:58 PM, Andrew Warshall ([email protected] via blfs-support 
Mailing List) wrote:
> 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.

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

Just a thought.  Try rebooting to ensure everything is consistent.

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