This is a trivial edit that we've recommended on the Speakup Modified home page for some time. Simply open /etc/asound.conf in your favorite text editor and comment line 9. This is the line that loads pluseaudio, so if you place a hash symbol, aka pound sign, aka octothorp, there--namely the '#' symobl--you'll prevent pulseaudio Simply open /etc/asound.conf in your favorite text editor and comment line 9. This is the line that loads pluseaudio, so if you place a hash symbol, aka pound sign, aka octothorp, there--namely the '#' symbol--you'll prevent pulseaudio from loading. Make this edit, save and exit, and your changes will shortly take effect. Janina Michael Whapples writes: > Hello, > I don't know whether it does prevent things in the standard > configuration but on the orca list Halim suggested editing the > /etc/asound.conf file so that pulseaudio goes through a dmix and so > won't block the actual hardware device. Sorry I don't have the exact > link to hand but I am sure if you look back through the orca list > archives you will find the configuration posted. > > Michael Whapples > On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Georgina Joyce wrote: > >Hi > > > >I wondered if pulse audio or something else prevents speakup from using > >software speech on a Fedora 12 system installed from the Live cD? > > > >Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
