Re: Pulseaudio, hal, udev, was: Firefox 26: occasional freeze with Youtube Webm videos

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 05:05:03PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> On 9 April 2014 19:00, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:04:59PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> >> All the above to no avail. The only way is a reboot of the machine.
> >
> > Have you tried killing pulseaudio instead?
> >
> > pulseaudio --kill
> > pulseaudio --cleanup
> >
> > and then try again?
> >  Thomas
> 
> It works, but only after also restarting Firefox.
> 
> Is there any chance to discover what causes this event? Any
> configuration files that I could change?
> 
> Googling around, I got the impression this might have to do with
> module-hal-detect being deprecated. Re:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2014/01/06/msg024021.html

That's why we haven't upgraded pulseaudio in pkgsrc... (so it should
still be alright)

Cheers,

Patrick