| How to make YouTube HTML5 audio work with Lighthouse 64 Puppy Linux 6.02 Beta 2 and a Sewell USB Sound Box |
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Monday, July 31st, 2017 08:40:30 GMT |
| Puppy Linux |
I finally found a way to make YouTube's HTML5 player play audio while I'm using my Sewell USB Sound Box with Lighthouse 64 Puppy Linux 6.02 Beta.
Previously, I simply used the YouTube Flash Video Player web browser add-on instead of struggling to make the HTML5 player work. But, that add-on recently stopped working for me in the Pale Moon web browser. I tried upgrading Pale Moon, but that didn't fix the audio either.
But luckily, after a few days, I stumbled across this helpful forum thread. Post #10 contained all the info I needed. Thanks to all the authors of that thread!
Here's what I did:
/etc/asound.conf in a text editor. (You might want to make a backup copy of the asound.conf file in case anything goes wrong.)
/etc/asound.conf with the settings from the above-mentioned Post #10: