[Nix-dev] Chromium not working with pulseaudio

Jessica Taylor jessica.liu.taylor at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 10:52:13 CET 2014


nixos-version: 14.04.591.aa61c12 (Baboon)

Your fix worked, Georges.  Thanks!

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Georges Dubus <georges.dubus at gmail.com> wrote:

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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