Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 02:44:50 +0100 From: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: desktop@FreeBSD.org, gecko@FreeBSD.org, chromium@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microphone stopped working in Frefox and Chrome Message-ID: <1025e6a2-2516-8eed-2f7a-9346c90057fd@cedro.info> In-Reply-To: <9025f616-ba3f-ef44-603a-824bd8e4e20a@cedro.info> References: <CAM8r67BLs%2BXWuWB-eqVWang=5MKZ0_9L5J%2BhsM2HO6yJCUJwHQ@mail.gmail.com> <9025f616-ba3f-ef44-603a-824bd8e4e20a@cedro.info>
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On 1/23/21 1:54 AM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > On 1/21/21 3:49 PM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: >> Microphone stopped working in Frefox and Chrome. It works fine with >> Audacity. I am unable to attend videocalls anymore from a FreeBSD box >> where is worked fine recently.. no matter if google chat or zoom :-( >> >> Did anyone observe such problem? > > It seems something got broken on PulseAudio or Firefox / Chrome. I am > working on recent 12.2-RELEASE AMD64. Microphone works in other > applications (i.e. Audacity). > > Quick fix is to use OSS backend in OSS over about:config in Firefox: > media.cubeb.backend oss > media.cubeb.input_voice_routing true > media.cubeb.output_voice_routing true > > This way we can at least use this crap for work. Until PulseAudio > backend is fixed. Several days lost again. F*** Y** Mozilla :-( > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-use-microphone-with-firefox.74292/ Rebuilding and reinstalling the pulseaudio-13.0_2 fixed the problem of the microphone on both Firefox and Chromium! Options : ALSA : off AVAHI : off GCONF : off GDBM : off GSETTINGS : off JACK : off SIMD : on SIMPLE : on SOXR : off SPEEX : off TDB : off TEST : on WEBRTC_AEC : on This is a PulseAudio problem! Looks like another pkg to lock ;-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, https://www.tomek.cedro.info
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