Yes, I can confirm that Pulse Audio is a total pain in the ass! I just spent the past two days trying to get a combination of parms that would enable normal ALSA and Pulse to function at the same time without one clobbering access to sound hardware by anything else. This was on my Arch Linux system. I found some info on the Arch wiki explaining how to alter the /etc/pulse/default.pa to enable all this. But for Debian, you ought to be able to get software speech going at the console level and just leave gnome completely out of the way. Then work on speech dispatcher and get that verified with the spd-say command. then perhaps staart messing with gnome and only run it with the startx command from a native console. I know these ideas are brief and I'm sure you may run into problems with conflicts but at least, follow that general sequence of events and maybe some more progress can be made. On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:23:03PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > John G. Heim, le Sun 31 Mar 2013 10:20:47 -0500, a ?crit : > > Do you mean the gdm login screen won't have speech? > > Yes. > > > I asked about that a couple of times on the orca list and nobody seemed to know how to enable speech for the login prompt. > > Yes, because gdm3 does not have any yet. > > > A few people have reported problems getting speakup to work with software speech. > > Possibly due to interference with pulseaudio etc. > > > That's not working on my system either although I haven't really tried to get it working. > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
