If you have gnome or a variant installed, my understanding is that you can't remove pulse audio without breaking stuff. If you install XFCE desktop, I'm told you can avoid installing pulse along with it. I haven't tried this yet though. I understand XFCE is only minimally accessible. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alonzo cuellar" <mariachiac@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at linux-speakup.org> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 6:00 AM Subject: Re: speakup, audio solutions >I understand. I never really figured out how to get rid of pulse audio on > fedora systems. I've always configured to use my arch installation with > alsa. I've not had a need for a second audio device. Though I do believe > if > your doing some type of recording... A second audio device might be > needed. > I think i read a few postings on how to disable pulse audio on Fedora a > while back. Which included touching > /usr/bin/pulseaudio > and removing pulseaudio and the pulse audio alsa plugins. > This is probably not the right way to do it though. I to rely on speakup > and haven't found a way to disable pulseaudio when installing fedora. > When I tried disabling pulse audio this way system audio would break and I > would not have speach. > Now if you have to configure aound.conf in /etc... I did not do so since I > only have one sound card on this system. > On my currently arch installation I have an .asoundrc file to have the > proper mic use for voice calls. > Any suggestions would be appreciated and perhaps I'll give fedora a try > once again. > > Alonzo > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 07:52:16PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: >> Pulseaudio doesn't work for me because I rely on Speakup pretty >> thoroughly. I have several issues with it including very choppy speech >> and stupid behavior over audio stopping play when I move out of the tty >> where I invoked the audio. >> >> I am about to go file an RFE with pulse to ask for an easy way to >> configure pulse to leave any particular audio device alone. I know one >> can terminate pulse on a per app basis, but that's too cumbersome, imo. >> And, I think there should be something easier than writing a custom udev >> rule to accomplish excluding some particular audio device from pulse. >> >> Janina >> >> Alonzo cuellar writes: >> > Hello, >> > >> > This is just a question I have. For those using systems like fefora, >> > debian, ubuntu, etc? How do you use speakup? >> > I know pulse audio has problems with system-wide audio. So what are >> > people >> > doing these days? I can see maybe taking a seperate audio device, but >> > is >> > there other work arounds? >> > This protains to those who use pulseaudio on their systems. It wa just >> > something to ask the list since I'm sure many people face different >> > situations with their setups. >> > >> > Alonzo >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Speakup mailing list >> > Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> -- >> >> Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 >> sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net >> Email: janina at rednote.net >> >> Linux Foundation Fellow >> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org >> >> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) >> Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf >> Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
