This problem is not vinux specific. It's in Ubuntu 11.04 using espeakup completely crashes any audio in gnome. Maybe there is a way to run espeakup with pulse, but I don't know how to do that. David Sexton +91 9400223351 On 6/1/2011 3:50 AM, Sina Bahram wrote: > Tyler, I completely agree. > > I feel that you, sir, and only you can fix it. > > Thus, please help us fix it from the cobbled mess it is. > > Please provide a working solution for the problem highlighted below between pulseaudio in system wide mode, etc. etc. > > I'll give you a freebee. You don't even have to implement your solution. Just detail it in full please. > > You obviously know more about this problem than anyone else, so please explain very clearly where Vinux has gone wrong in > pulseaudio, speakup, and orca support. > > I eagerly await your productive response. > > Take care, > Sina > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:03 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: Running Speakup on Ubuntu (fwd) > > I think the problem is they've cobbled Vinux together, and now the > bubble gum acting as glue is finally falling apart. > On another note, why not use espeakup? It works with pulse, no? > On 5/31/2011 3:52 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 05:13:39 >> From: Tony Sales<tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk> >> To: "'Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com'" >> <Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com> >> Subject: Running Speakup on Ubuntu >> >> Is anyone able to get speakup running on anUbuntu installation (or live CD) which has the default orca screen-reader option > enabled - in other words - which has Orca running and Pulseaudio running in user mode? Or even on a plain Ubuntu without Orca > enabled - I have been trying to do this for a week and have not made any progress. I am not sure whether the problem is pulsaudio or > speech-dispatcher or speech-up - but I suspect it maybe caused by speech-dispatcher as I am able to run pulseaudio and speech-up > without any error messages. But I get an error about speech-dispatcher being disabled if I try to start that in a console. > Speech-dispatcher seems to be set not to run in system mode by default. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >