No web audio playback on the Lenovo X140e

Roboto · 11-21-2015, 07:18 PM

I have Slackware 14.1 installed on my computer. Audio works locally on my machine, like when I play an audio file on the hard drive or a video or use the test feature on the audio configuration tool. However, when I play back a youtube video, there is no audio playback. I checked alsamixer, I checked KDE audio configuration tools, and even switched GUI's to XFCE, but no playback audio for web based media. Any ideas?

Roboto · 11-21-2015, 07:22 PM

I forgot to paste my laptop ingredients.
http://pastebin.com/t31EDcE2

bassmadrigal · 11-21-2015, 07:56 PM

What browser (and browser version) are you using? If it is firefox, I believe it needs some gst plugins, but I can never remember which. Maybe gst-ffmpeg or gst-ugly? Both are available on SBo.

Roboto · 11-21-2015, 08:23 PM

@bassmadrigal That would be firefox 38.4.0 Interesting comment about the plugins...I will install some and let you know. I also have sbopkg, which comes in handy.

Roboto · 11-21-2015, 10:39 PM

I tried installing plugins, no audio. I also tried different browsers, same issue. I might add that this issue is unique to Slackware, other distros do not have these issues. Meaning, that this issue can probably be fixed under Slackware, it is just finding out what has to be tweaked.