On 2020-11-21 23:56, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:58:17 -0700
> Matt Graham wrote:
>> The firefox developers have basically said, "The microphone on your
>> computer won't work at all unless you use pulseaudio."[0]
> There's a simple executable called apulse that gives pulseaudio
> facilities to its argument. For instance:
> apulse firefox
This was the first thing I tried. It didn't work.
> The preceding runs firefox with pulseaudio underneath, but that
> pulseaudio is invisible to everything else on your system.
Not really. apulse messes with LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that its arguments
see a "fake" libpulse.so which acts as a pass-through to ALSA. This is
supposed to work in some fashion, but it didn't for me. I think this is
actually because on Gentoo, apulse and pulseaudio cannot be installed at
the same time. Also because there is apparently a thing you have to do
that was never explained properly in the documentation that I read: You
have to do "patchelf --set-rpath /usr/lib64/apulse
/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so" (or wherever your libxul.so file is.)
I'd try this, but everything works properly now and rebuilding firefox
takes 2 hours.
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