Last night I used the Update Station to update my GhostBSD install to the latest. As part of the update, it updated Chromium from version 92 to 94, which seems to have broken sound. Everything just plays back as silence. Firefox plays audio fine. I tried removing and reinstalling the Chromium package with pkg with the same result.

I then removed the chromium package and re-installed chromium-92.0.4515.159_2.pkg from /var/cache/pkg, and sound works in Chromium again.

Any advice on troubleshooting? Is this problem specific to my system, or is this a bug that I should report on github, and if so what information would be useful to collect?

Thanks

I have sound with Chromium. Are You running the official version or the community version?

I'm running the version from 'pkg install chromium', so I assume that's community.

I am referring to GhostBSD, XFCE, or MATE?

Oh, Sorry, I misunderstood! I'm running GhostBSD Community-- I installed the images with Xfce.

OK, that explained it now. XFCE version maintainer did not add PulseAudio compatibility to it. I compiled Chromium run with pulse audio to have it work properly with MATE.

What you can do to solve that is to install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin and xfce4-volumed-pulse.

Thank you! Installing those packages made Chromium see more than just the 'Default' audio device, and now I can play back audio. I'm still experiencing microphone issues in Chromium where the Mic works for a few seconds on a page and then cuts out that wasn't happening before the upgrade, but audio as a whole is working now. I'll do some more testing with the Mic and see if I can figure out whats going on.

Thanks for your help.