thanks ,

i have tested now a bit with devuan jessie and beowulf,
and it seems that the

alsa

package is missing on both distros.

some things don't seem to function as they would on an older distro like

which is alsa-only.

when i try to playback audio in browser from this site here

http://www.gaia.com/

it would not play on my alsa-only devuan computer;
however, on the same computer, running lubuntu 12.04, the audio would play.
something is probably missing on the alsa-side, but i cannot see how to install the packages from the repo as alsa seems missing altogether.

thank you for your help!

is it possible to

extract the contents of .amd64 deb file locally to achieve something like a local portable copy of firefox-esr instead of installing it directly onto the devuan/debian system?

thank you very much!
this seems a quite promising legacy browser!

hope it is also a safe one!
the only alternative to firefox seemed to me seamonkey, but some add-ons are not compatible with seamonkey.

hello ,

thank yo very much for your help.

today i downgraded to devuan jessie on my t60 laptop (the newer devuan/debian seems no longer to offer icedtea-plugin for java, needed for some playback on older websites)

now i have firefox 68.6.0esr (64-bit) ESR quantum? release

is it possible to use this browser also with alsa-only?

i don't think  i will be able to use basilisk on here with devuan jessie;

normally i use firefox 52 esr + seamonkey + chromium (for netflix)
but the firefox 68 seems quite fast and most of the things i need seem to function.
sadly, the older plugins won't function, but quite a lot of add-ons have already been updated or adapted.

i have installed the plugins, but it would not show up in firefox.

it seems that it is missing gnome-mplayer which is also deprecated since jessie

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libgmlib1 (>= 1.0.7), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), gnome-mplayer (>= 1.0.7) 

Hello ,

thank you very much for your help.

is is possible to download the .deb for firefox-esr 52 with alsa enabled?
the version on devuan ascii is ff-esr 68+ but i would prefer to use an earlier version for compliance with legacy add-ons.
i think firefox-esr 52.9 is the last to support officially the legacy add-ions.

ah, i checked this, no vpn running apparently, my ip is 151.62.1.237, indeed.
please let me know if i can do something about it, otherwise i post this error here on the forum.

ok, but previously (on debian) i never had to configure reportbug to use the smtp that i use in mailclient, it would use its own if remember correctly. sorry for being picky. that was more easy and "anonymous".

hostname is "t400"

that was set when setting up devuan (i gave it a name whatsoever).

smtp server? non that i know of. i use thunderbird as email client.

thank you very much for your help.

well , it seems alsa is functioing on my computer also withouth

alsa

and

alsa-base

package;
however, the cmus alsa-plugin is not responding; there seems to be some incompatibility;
also, the evoked root-command

alsactl init

fails on my system (beowulf xfce4)

thank you very much.

This gives

bash: alsactl: command not found

these packages are found

apt list alsa*
Listing... Done
alsa-firmware-loaders/testing 1.1.7-1 amd64
alsa-firmware-loaders/testing 1.1.7-1 i386
alsa-oss/testing 1.1.8-1 amd64
alsa-oss/testing 1.1.8-1 i386
alsa-tools-gui/testing 1.1.7-1 amd64
alsa-tools-gui/testing 1.1.7-1 i386
alsa-tools/testing 1.1.7-1 amd64
alsa-tools/testing 1.1.7-1 i386
alsa-utils/testing,now 1.1.8-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
alsa-utils/testing 1.1.8-2 i386
alsamixergui/testing 0.9.0rc2-1-10 amd64
alsamixergui/testing 0.9.0rc2-1-10 i386
alsaplayer-alsa/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-alsa/testing 0.99.81-2 i386
alsaplayer-common/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-common/testing 0.99.81-2 i386
alsaplayer-daemon/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-daemon/testing 0.99.81-2 i386
alsaplayer-gtk/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-gtk/testing 0.99.81-2 i386
alsaplayer-jack/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-jack/testing 0.99.81-2 i386
alsaplayer-nas/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-nas/testing 0.99.81-2 i386
alsaplayer-oss/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-oss/testing 0.99.81-2 i386
alsaplayer-text/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-text/testing 0.99.81-2 i386
alsaplayer-xosd/testing 0.99.81-2 amd64
alsaplayer-xosd/testing 0.99.81-2 i386

however, there is no "alsa" or "alsa-base" package?

also ubuntu offers

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=alsa