You need either to disable pulse audio in /etc or remove it and it's alsa plugin. This is mentioned on the Speakup Modified home page. Pulse audio doesn't launch, as Fedora configures it, until a gui user logs in. This is ridiculous, and we need to: 1.) File a few bugs against Fedora on this. After all, this clashes with gdm a11y. 2.) Expand the use cases on the pulse audio home page. Pulse audio could become a very useful meta audio environment for us. But, the vision of those who have so far been involved is, ahem, rather poor? Janina Zachary Kline writes: > > Hi, > In an attempt to get a Linux system with Speakup without having to patch kernels and such, I downloaded and decided to virtualize > Fedora 8 via Qemu. I have no hardware synthesizer, nor do I have the ports to install said hardware synthesizer anywhere on this computer, so I installed via Telnet. > Now I run into some problems with > PulseAudio. From what I understand, this should ideally be a pretty simple > program which should just work. I don't understand, though, why we couldn't have just stuck > with Linux Alsa as it is now. I have been wrestling with PA for some time, trying to get it working and not sure how to. Removing the packages as suggested by the Speakupmodified.org site > isn't really helping:I want sound in the graphical desktop too. > Has anybody managed to read through the wealth of traffic on the Fedora mailing lists and elsewhere and found a solution? > Thanks much, > Zack. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail?-get your "fix". > http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org