On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:12:07AM -0500, Kyle wrote: > but until then, you can try to downgrade to a previous pulseaudio > version if it's still in the repo. Otherwise, you may be able to fix I'll look into it - I'd rather not down grade though if itll break other stuff, will just revert back to alsa until things get fixed if there is no alternative. > some issues you are experiencing by fiddling with options in > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and /etc/pulse/default.pa, although I don't > think default.pa runs when pulseaudio runs as a system service. Hmm, I'll definitely investigate, though I'm not really sure where to start :) > The alsa errors you are getting in espeak actually look normal. I've > been getting these errors for a very long time, but they seem > non-fatal. Espeak still speaks without any further complaints, so I > didn't think there was anything to be extremely concerned about. It > almost seems to be looking for hardware that doesn't exist, but I'm > not sure why it does it, and it still speaks, so I just leave it > alone and ignore the initial alsa errors. On the other hand, I can't Exactly. Happens on my netbook as well or on this machine with ubuntu live usb. > figure out why you would be still getting the alsa hardware errors > if you have rebuilt espeak using pulseaudio rather than portaudio, > as in this case, espeak should only be using pulseaudio to send Precisely > speech to your sound card. Did you install the development packages > for pulseaudio? My guess is that it's falling back to portaudio Well it wouldn't build without them so I had to install them :) > some thoughts, hope something helps. It does, certainly things I can investigate . Thanks for your help. Dan
