Austin Seraphin <au at sunbeem.net> writes: > I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.39 and espeak has changed its default > output to a different soundcard. Are you also running gnome? If you are, then it wasn't your kernel upgrade that broke espeakup, it was the installation of the pulseaudio-alsa package. This comes along as a dependency of gnome. The problem is that it contains a /etc/asoundrc file that forces alsa applications to use pulseaudio. espeakup runs as root, and I believe that root cannot start its own pulseaudio instance. The quick fix is to comment out everything in /etc/asoundrc. Then, if you want to redirect alsa applications to pulseaudio when they run under your user account, edit ~/.asoundrc appropriately. Hope this helps, -- Chris
