Hi Mike,
I tried to follow the suggestions on
This hints that firefox is not using PulseAudio. Maybe this documentation helps a bit... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio
but as I'm using Debian Squeeze and not Ubuntu, it is more of a trial and error experience.
I did three things: a) Install some more pulseaudio-related packages, among them "paman", which confirms that I have a working pulseaudio connection between host and client, from what I can tell b) Create the /etc/asound.conf file as described on the wiki.ubuntu.com page c) Run paplay somefile.wav to confirm that sound works on the commandline - it does.
Now, when I try to run a Youtube video in Iceweasel, it freezes and I see the following stuff on the command line:
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Zeitüberschreitung
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1401:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
Next up: Trying to follow John A. Sullivan III's reply.
Kind Regards, Stefan