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Subject: Re: Firefox and sndio
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On 28/01/2017 11:37, Tobias Kortkamp wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017, at 11:23, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
>> Audio in Firefox seems to be working fine when ALSA is enabled. But when
>> ALSA is disabled and only SNDIO is enabled there is no sound. In either
>> case I had PULSEAUDIO disabled. What's the expected configuration for
>> this to work?
> Is sndiod running?  If not:
>
>      sysrc sndiod_enable=YES
>      service sndiod start
>

Thanks Tobias. That helped. Out of interest. Is there any reason why I 
should prefer either SNDIO, PUlSEAUDIO or ALSA?