[Nix-dev] Chromium not working with pulseaudio

Georges Dubus georges.dubus at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 09:23:21 CET 2014


Hello

Looking into nixpkgs (
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/4124a0bd9c900ec4b481cae8786cae44f93bad41/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L9195),
it looks like the pulseaudio config attribute should not be inside the
chromium set, but in nixpkgs.config itself.

Georges

Georges Dubus

2014-12-11 9:13 GMT+01:00 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si>:

> Hi Jessica,
>
> could you paste `nixos-version` output?
>
> Domen
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Jessica Taylor <
> jessica.liu.taylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello.  I recently installed NixOS and found that most things worked, but
>> I'm having a problem with audio.
>>
>> When Chromium should play a sound (such as with HTML5 video or Gmail), no
>> sound plays, and Chromium is not listed as an application in pavucontrol.
>>
>> I have pulseaudio enabled:
>>
>> > hardware.pulseaudio.enable = true;
>>
>> Firefox can play sounds just fine (and appears in pavucontrol), so it
>> appears to be a Chromium-specific issue.
>>
>> I have Chromium explicitly configured to be compiled with pulseaudio
>> support (which I think is already the default):
>>
>> > nixpkgs.config = {
>> >   ...
>> >   chromium = {
>> >     enablePepperFlash = true;
>> >     enablePepperPDF = true;
>> >     pulseaudio = true;
>> >   };
>> > };
>>
>> I tried following the directions in
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/12117/match=chromium,
>> but this didn't help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jessica Taylor
>>
>>
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