yes, google is your friend, but it can sometimes create more hassle than it's worth. Like giving you 30 million hits for a search and having none of what you need be on the first 5 pages. Believe me, I have had that happen more than once. I have no issues with pulse audio myself, but then, I am running on ubuntu 14.10 LTS on my other laptop. -eric On May 25, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Mark has to get rid of pulseaudio and all of its dependencies. > > On Wed, 25 May 2016, Willem van der Walt wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:10:06 >> From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: console speech >> Get rid of pulseaudio. >> You should be able to google how to do that on your distro. >> HTH, Willem >> >> >> On Wed, 25 May 2016, Mark Peveto wrote: >> >>> I'm at my witt's end! I'm working with f123, a manjaro based distro, and have had really good luck, until it comes to console speech using espeakup. >>> It'll speak for about 30 seconds, then I get a pulseaudio error that looks like this. >>> assirtion 'p' failed at pulse/simple.c:273, function pa_simple_write(). Aborting. >>> It's shot me down on every manjaro based distro I've tried. Others have seemed to get speech in console, but I can't seem to make it happen. Vinux has >>> it, and if i have to i'll put vinux on both machines, but that seems a little nuts. I like vinux, and am using it now, but would also like the >>> opportunity to work with these other distros. I've been able to install my favorite programs, but trying to use them from a terminal just doesn't read >>> well, so I need the console. >>> Oh, and before someone says google it, I've done that for a week. Nothing helps. LOL! >>> Mark Peveto >>> Registered Linux user number 600552 >>> Sent from vinux using alpine 2.20.10 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Blinux-list mailing list >>> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >>> -- >>> This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. >>> The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. >>> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, >>> and is believed to be clean. >>> Please consider the environment before printing this email. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list