John G Heim, le mar. 20 nov. 2018 10:13:46 -0600, a ecrit: > I found a vague howto on getting dmix to work but it says that if you use > dmix, you have to configure each sound app to use it. Is that right? No, you can configure it globally. > Is this problem part of the kernel-space vs user-space problem? No, it's espeakup, i.e. a userland daemon which accesses the sound board. > I would settle for getting speech during start up. I can probably put > something in the X11 configuration to disable espeakup once the GUI > starts up. But I am wondering if there is a path forward on this. The path forward was implemented in time for Buster: espeakup shuts itself down when switching to graphical mode. Samuel _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup