I have never gotten pulse to work at all, I had to bypass it to get any audio in a text console. If anyone knows more, I can post the details. Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote: > Rob Hudson <captinlogic at gmail.com> wrote: > > That sounds like Pulse grabs the whole device and won't let it go. > > This is why I route mplayer to another card. I'm not sure if that'll > > work either, however. I don't know if Pulse grabs all audio cards in > > the system or not. Pulse sure sounds evil lol. > > I think it does exactly that by default. You can change the configuration > however. You can also run pasuspender to suspend it, and there's a command > under pacmd to suspend individual cards. > > In general, though, I think the right way to deal with Pulse is to work with > it rather than against it by sorting out whatever the underlying problems are. > I think there's enough talent within the accessibility and Linux audio > communities to do this, but, so far, I haven't seen a good description of what > the real issues are or what needs to be done. > > It seems that too many people are content with work-arounds and no one is > doing the real work to track down the root causes and fix them. That's a real > cause for concern, because in the long run it will only mean more problems for > new and existing users. Pulse is here to stay. > > I have it working satisfactorily on my laptop and not quite satisfactorily on > my desktop system. I submitted a patch to Debian to ensure that the Espeak > package was compiled properly with Pulse support (previously, the Pulse > support was being overwritten during the build process). There's an open > Debian bug about problems with Pulse and Emacspeak speech servers. > > I'm also waiting for patches to be integrated into FreeSWITCH to support Pulse > - there are people working on those already. > > Pacmd is an interesting tool. If there is active audio input/output, you can > actually get a list of all the applications that are interacting with the > Pulse server, and you can adjust the volume of the audio for each application. > You can also move applications from one audio device to another, though I > haven't experimented with that yet. There are many other features as well. > > The key to making Pulse work reliably is to make sure that nothing you're > using tries to bypass it by writing directly to the Alsa devices. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
