Well crud, tried it, and no sound or speech. *sigh* Thanks for the suggestion, though. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from vinux using alpine 2.20.10 On Thu, 26 May 2016, Willem Venter wrote: > Hi. > Pulseaudio takes complete control of the audio device, so when other > devices try to use the soundcard through alsa things break. > > A work around I use is playing sound using dmix. This means a bit more > processing and possibly a little latency for programs using pulse, but > on the other hand it's better than broken sound. > > Remove package pulseaudio-alsa, which provides compatibility layer > between ALSA applications and PulseAudio. After this your ALSA apps > will use ALSA directly without being hooked by Pulse. > Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa. > Find and uncomment lines which load back-end drivers. Add device > parameters as follows. Then find and comment lines which load > autodetect modules. > load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix > load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop > # load-module module-udev-detect > # load-module module-detect > > After rebooting pulseaudio won't grab the sound device, but instead > plays it through dmix. > > hth > Willem > > On 5/26/16, Mark Peveto <southernprince73@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Here's the error I was talking about earlier. > > > > Back story: I'm trying to get console speech. Since i can't right now, > > I'm doing this from a terminal, which reads badly. Once I type sudo > > espeakup, it'll read the top of the console screen, and the login prompt > > asking for a username. After that it gives an error which i'll post. I > > know it's a pulseaudio problem. Most suggest I get rid of pulseaudio, > > and if that's the only solution there is, I guess i'll have to, but that > > creates more problems when it comes to having the system rediscover new > > sound drivers. Long explanation short, it jacks things up! > > > > Error follows. > > > > [southernprince@roxie ~]$ sudo espeakup > > [sudo] password for southernprince: > > [southernprince@roxie ~]$ Assertion 'p' failed at pulse/simple.c:273, > > function pa_simple_write(). Aborting. > > > > It should be noted here that the error does not appear until I start to > > type. It reads the login prompt, and once i hit the s for > > southernprinc, my username, the error appears. If I could figure out > > how, I might turn keyecho off, which I wanna do anyway, but I don't know > > if that'd help anything. > > > > There ya have it folks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
