Ok, back to my original question: Can you specify the espeakup audio device? If so, you should be able to keep pulse audio from using that device. The Windows analogy is telling jaws to use a specific sound card and make the second card the default to be used by other apps. Chris On 9/30/2010 10:00 AM, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:45:39AM -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote: >> Kenny Hitt<kenny at hittsjunk.net> writes: >> >>> Hi. Unless you edit files and enable options discouraged by the >>> pulseaudio developer, pulseaudio will take over all audio devices. >>> Once it grabs them, only apps that output through pulseaudio will be >>> able to generate sound. >> >> Hi. I have pulse running over here, on my ArchLinux system. But I'm >> also running at least one application, namely espeakup, which does not >> use Pulse Audio. No, Pulse does not run in system mode. It runs as the >> user "chris", and I use it for music and other things. Aside from >> adding the "chris" account to the realtime scheduling group, I don't >> remember doing anything special when I installed it. So why does >> everyone else have problems with Pulse that I don't have? Granted, my >> card does hardware mixing. Maybe that explains it. >> >> -- Chris >> _______________________________________________ > Yes, that's why it works for you. My card doesn't do hardware mixing, so I experience the issues. > > Kenny > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
