What file names do I look for? I did a fresh install yesterday afternoon, so yeah, I could try. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from vinux using alpine 2.20.10 On Fri, 27 May 2016, Willem Venter wrote: > 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. > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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