I solved this problem. If you are on a gui, install gnome-alsamixer and open it up. You are then presented with tab controls for each audio card you have installed. my soundblaster has a checkbox that says something like "analog source." Check that box. Then go back into your terminal and do as root alsactl store alsa force-reload Then restart your pulseaudio server, in whatever way is appropriate for your distro. This is just a front end for alsamixer, so you can probably do this in alsamixer itself, but I found it rather hard to navigate with speakup. This way was a lot easier. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at linux-speakup.org> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:32 PM Subject: Re: voxin speakup connector and Pulse > Hi, > > If there's a way to avoid this situation, I haven't found it. I console > myself that the Speakup Connector isn't the only ill behaved audio > application in this regard, but I'll spare us all chapter and verse on > that topic. Suffice it to say that I now require a minimum of two audio > devices to run screen reader support on Linux, one for Speakup and one > for Orca. A third is minimal for other audio apps, imo. > > PS: One example of other hoggy apps would be Fluidsynth with aconnect. > > Janina > > Rob Hudson writes: >> This really works amazingly well and I love it. However... >> This does not seem to play well with pulse audio. When I run it, it hogs >> the entire >> sound card to itself, causing me to have to switch the desktop to a >> different sound >> card. Now this probably is not a big deal since I do in fact have other >> cards to >> switch to, but is there a way to prevent it hogging the entire card to >> itself? >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
