Re: [Alsa-user] Off-topic: Changing device while stream is running

2017-10-22 Thread John Z.
> IIRC "ac_add_options --enable-alsa" was dropped for Arch's Firefox 52.0, > but IIRC then the repositories provided the builds with enable-alsa > again, but IIRC with Firefox 54 upstream dropped alsa completely. I wasn't really married to firefox to begin with, so dropping it wasn't really an

Re: [Alsa-user] Off-topic: Changing device while stream is running

2017-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 15:09:15 -0400, John Z. wrote: >Well, truth to be told, it *is* possible to build firefox with alsa >support by flicking on a config switch. Its just unfortunate my distro >(arch) dropped the alsa support with newest updates due to conflicts >with some other features they'd

Re: [Alsa-user] Off-topic: Changing device while stream is running

2017-10-22 Thread John Z.
> >Aside this switching issue, and few stubborn applications (hello there, > >firefox), I really fail to see the reason to use PA on top of alsa. > > Off-topic: > > For Firefox consider to use https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse . Well, truth to be told, it *is* possible to build firefox with

[Alsa-user] Off-topic: Changing device while stream is running

2017-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:18:43 -0400, John Z. wrote: >Aside this switching issue, and few stubborn applications (hello there, >firefox), I really fail to see the reason to use PA on top of alsa. Off-topic: For Firefox consider to use https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse .