On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:58:17 -0700 Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: > The firefox developers have basically said, "The microphone on your > computer won't work at all unless you use pulseaudio."[0] I've been > trying to avoid pulseaudio for various reasons.[1] But since > Thanksgiving is canceled this year, I'll have to see the family > virtually, and why not do that with bigbluebutton.org ? This led me > to a twisty maze of unwarranted assumptions and outright stupidity, > which I will try to summarize below. TL;DR: pulseaudio hates analog > audio and making analog audio work properly requires editing config > files by hand. For years, I've found pulseaudio to be a mass of invisible mutes. I use Void Linux, which doesn't compile everything assuming systemd and pulseaudio. My firefox 83.0 works just fine with no pulseaudio installed. So does most of my other stuff. There's a simple executable called apulse that gives pulseaudio facilities to its argument. For instance: apulse firefox The preceding runs firefox with pulseaudio underneath, but that pulseaudio is invisible to everything else on your system. By the way, my finding is I can use Jitsi on Chromium to video conference with families. From what I understand, Widnows people use MS Edge browser to join the discussion. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss