Re: espeakup

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Can you get access to the files on the disk? You might try deleting
some of the user pulseaudio configs.

On 5/27/16, Mark Peveto <southernprince73@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh, I'm sure it's good information, friend, I'm just not having much
> luck.  Think tha'ts more on my end.  I'm not as good at this as I should be.
>
> Mark Peveto
> Registered linux number 600552
> Sent from sonar using thunderbird.
>
> On 05/26/2016 02:11 PM, 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.
>>>
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