firefox + sndio, how to make work

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DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Tue Dec 30, 2025 5:20 pm

Greetings,

I'm running a system without pa, it seems that I'm unable to get firefox to use alsa and I noticed the sndio flag, tried it but didn't got any sound whatsoever, has anyone been able to make them work together?

krumpf · Post by **krumpf** » Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:12 pm

One thing you could try emerge media-sound/apulse with USE flag sdk, and then emerge firefox with pulseaudio flag. It should compile without pulling pa dependency.
It's a solution I read some ago, but I didn't test it since, instead of compiling FF, I'm using the firefox-bin which pulls apulse. (My system is ALSA only, no pa nor pipewire)

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Tue Dec 30, 2025 7:35 pm

I can't use pa flag, it pulls media-libs/libpulse which is installed as a daemon less lib for signal

flexibeast · Post by **flexibeast** » Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:40 pm

Have you also set `media.cubeb.backend` to `sndio`?

towel1 · Post by **towel1** » Sun Jan 04, 2026 11:50 pm

flexibeast wrote:Have you also set `media.cubeb.backend` to `sndio`?

yeah, nothing gives