FYW ... I continue to terminate pulse audio with extreme prejudice on all my systems. I do so as root: cd /usr/bin mv pulseaudio pulseaudio-binary touch pulseaudio chmod 555 pulseaudio I have no problems using Orca after doing this, except that GNOME earcons no longer work. This makes speakup much happier, in my experience. Janina Robert Spangler writes: > Hello all, > > I have just installed Debian Unstable. I get audio from Gnome and > Orca but no longer from Speakup when switching to other consoles. I > assume this is the classic Pulse Audio problem discussed in the > past. Should it be safe to remove Pulse Audio with apt-get remove > or should I try to reconfigure it in a different way? > > Thanks, > Robby > _______________________________________________ > 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/