I decided lately to get pulse audio another chance and see if thing improved some on my Arch Linux box. Well, I got it to work up to a point where Speech Dispatcher was autospawning and using pulseaudio with little trouble. But then as I went on to use speakup with its normal default espeak configuration, I lost speech completely. I could use paplay to play a wave file thru pulseaudio but still, no console speech for speakup. Further after a reboot, I thought things were going to be OK but as soon as I tried out emacspeak using the espeak server, I lost speech again and this time, the asound.state file got overwritten and I wondered why for several hours I couldn't get any speech out of my computer. Then it occured to me to replace the asound.state file with an old one I had and disabled all pulseaudio support for now and I finally got speakup working again. Are there any suggestions on how to have both ALSA and PulseAudio going at the same time so I can use speakup in the console and gnome whenever I want? I usually start gnome with the startx command and I understand it has to have Pulse running in order to get any gnome sound effects. What might I be missing here?
