No sound on Firefox

[ericthered]

I am running F16 + cinnamon 32-bit on an Acer Aspire One netbook.

When I play with the volume control, I hear the little "ding" that tells me how loud it is. But, when I try to watch youtube videos or listen to online music with Firefox, I have no sound. I can temporarily fix this problem by running

[root@fedora-netbook eric]# alsactl init
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC272X" "HDA:10ec0272,10250002,00100001" "0x1025" "0x0349"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method

However, I have to re-run this command after a reboot.

From what I understand, the desktop noises (such as the volume control "ding") are the result of pulseaudio. It is strange, then, that I have to invoke ALSA in order to get sound working on FF.

Something that may be of interest-- I have an older kernel versionlocked.

[root@fedora-netbook eric]# uname -r
3.2.5-3.fc16.i686

But if my memory serves me right, I've had this problem even when the latest kernels.

How can I get sound to work on firefox and stay that way?

[PabloTwo]

Here is something to try:

From your post: [root@fedora-netbook eric]# alsactl init

Since you are already root user, after the above command, do:

alsactl store
chmod 0666 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
usermod -a -G audio user

where "user" is your regular user login name.

Make sure the alsa-restore.service is enabled (it should be by default).

BASH:~/-> sudo systemctl status alsa-restore.service
alsa-restore.service - Restore Sound Card State
	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service; static)
	  Active: inactive (dead) since Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:51:17 -0500; 3h 52min ago
	Main PID: 901 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/alsa-restore.service

The time stamp and status=0/SUCCESS bits indicate it was active and doing its job at bootup.

[ericthered]

I ran the suggested commands and sound is now retained in Firefox after a reboot. Thanks for your help! Marking thread as SOLVED