Chromium 79 and no sound on Slackware64 14.2
by ruario from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4V9ZS)
Hi, as many of you know I work for Vivaldi. Recently we updated the underlying Chromium that powers the browser to be based on 79 (in internal builds only). At this point I lost support for sound under Slackware. Although it continues to work fine in other distros such as Ubuntu.
I quickly tried a few other Chromium based browsers, that are 79 based (e.g. the Chrome beta) and see the same sound issue there. I also fired up a quick Slackware64 14.2 VM and can replicate. Has anyone else played with a Chromium 79 browser on Slackware64 and see this issue or have any ideas.
If you want to try for yourself you can quickly test by fetching the Chrome beta, unpacking it and running it in place, e.g.
Make a (temp) for for Chrome (beta)
Code:mkdir /tmp/chrome-beta-sound-test
cd /tmp/chrome-beta-sound-testFetch and extract
Code:wget -O- https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/google-chrome-beta-79.0.3945.36-1.x86_64.rpm | tail -c+60711 | xz -d | cpio -idLaunch and try to play a video with sound
Code:opt/google/chrome-beta/google-chrome-beta https://help.vivaldi.com/article/html5-proprietary-media-on-linux/For me on an up to date Slackware64 14.2, sound does not play. In addition I note the following is printed on the terminal
Code:shm_open() failed: Function not implemented
ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pulse
[9863:9863:1118/160536.924898:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: default,No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pulse
[9863:9863:1118/160536.924995:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: plug:default,No such file or directoryCan anyone replicate or have any ideas as to why this fails on Slackware only?
I quickly tried a few other Chromium based browsers, that are 79 based (e.g. the Chrome beta) and see the same sound issue there. I also fired up a quick Slackware64 14.2 VM and can replicate. Has anyone else played with a Chromium 79 browser on Slackware64 and see this issue or have any ideas.
If you want to try for yourself you can quickly test by fetching the Chrome beta, unpacking it and running it in place, e.g.
Make a (temp) for for Chrome (beta)
Code:mkdir /tmp/chrome-beta-sound-test
cd /tmp/chrome-beta-sound-testFetch and extract
Code:wget -O- https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/google-chrome-beta-79.0.3945.36-1.x86_64.rpm | tail -c+60711 | xz -d | cpio -idLaunch and try to play a video with sound
Code:opt/google/chrome-beta/google-chrome-beta https://help.vivaldi.com/article/html5-proprietary-media-on-linux/For me on an up to date Slackware64 14.2, sound does not play. In addition I note the following is printed on the terminal
Code:shm_open() failed: Function not implemented
ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pulse
[9863:9863:1118/160536.924898:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: default,No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pulse
[9863:9863:1118/160536.924995:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: plug:default,No such file or directoryCan anyone replicate or have any ideas as to why this fails on Slackware only?