Hello, Kirk, everyone. As far as the Arch virtual machine goes, I get the following errors at startup concerning ALSA/PulseAudio after installing GNOME. ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused The garbled voice does not take place until I install GNOME under Arch. I know that PulseAudio will be installed with GNOME under Arch. I completely uninstalled GNOME and then simply installed the pulseaudio-alsa and pulseaudio packages, and the same problem occurred with the garbled voice at startup. I am not sure what to do in this situation to find out how to resolve this issue. I wish that I had a testing machine to try things like this out as opposed to using virtual machines, but my only option right now is virtualization. Are there any other Arch users here on-list who successfully have Speakup and GNOME/PulseAudio working together? I am not a LInux guru (yet), but if you need me to provide any particular information which would help in solving the issue I am having, I should be able to get it for you. Thanks for any help. Take care. On 12/28/2011 07:15 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Robert: I can't answer all your questions because I only use gnome > on an occasional basis. You can certainly use both speakup and gnome > at the same time and together. Most folks that do that use speakup in > separate consoles which you can access with alt-control-fn keys, n > being any one of the number of consoles that are set-up by default on > your distributions. I believe debian is six by default, I'm not sure > what it is on arch but Chris can say for sure. We that use speakup a > lot typically use espeakup as our speakup interface which is a > connector program that ties espeak to speakup which is very responsive > and does work with alsa and maybe even pulse audio. I'm not that > familiar with pulse audio however and turn it off more often than not > when applications that usually mix well by themselve trip over pulse > audio. > > I'm not sure if that answers all your question but it might get a few > nay sayers to come out of the woodwork and add their two cents worth. > > Kirk > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Robert Cole wrote: > >> Hello, everyone. >> >> My name is Robert (but you can call me Bob if you'd like). I am a >> partially blind Linux user; I have no sight at all in my left eye, >> and I have very limited vision in my right eye (an acuity measurement >> of 20/2000). >> >> I have been an Ubuntu user for nearly the past five years, however I >> am thinking of switching to Arch Linux. I guess I would consider >> myself an intermediate Linux user, but I have a lot more to learn. I >> have been trying out TalkingArch [1] (a modified Arch CD which comes >> with Speakup in a live session) in VirtualBox so that I can get a >> feel for Arch before I decide to install it onto my desktop system. I >> have a few questions regarding Speakup, and I hope that this is the >> best place for them (I do not know where else to take these questions). >> >> I do not mind learning more about and using the command line, but my >> wife absolutely must have a GUI environment. If I install GNOME, >> would I still be able to use Speakup in a console window? >> >> I had Arch installed in VirtualBox earlier today, but when I >> installed GNOME 3 the eSpeak voice sounded very garbled after a >> reboot. I am not sure what caused this; I reinstalled Arch in >> VirtualBox earlier and have not installed GNOME 3 yet. >> >> Now...this has been a bit confusing to me ever since my switch to >> Linux. I have heard of different sound servers (?) such as ALSA, ESD >> (?), and PulseAudio. Does Speakup work with PulseAudio or is ALSA >> required? >> >> I apologize for these questions; rest assured they are out of my >> ignorance. :) I have depended on screen magnification for a very long >> time, but I want to try to depend on it less, and so I am learning to >> use and work with screen readers such as Orca in GNOME and now >> Speakup. Honestly, I just feel quite lost. Regardless of that, >> though, I want to learn more about Linux, and Linux is all that I >> prefer to use. >> >> I would really appreciate any advice and guidance. >> >> Thanks for any help which you may offer. >> >> I am looking forward to learning more! >> >> Take care. >> >> [1] Arch Linux for the Blind: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_for_the_blind >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > -- > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
