Hello Jude, I highly recommend reading PulseAudio under the hood from Victor Gaydov: https://gavv.github.io/articles/pulseaudio-under-the-hood/ It is not in the "official" documentation but provides a very in depth information while staying practical and understandable by the casual users like me. I just hope that would exist a similar document about ALSA. My position is that if properly configured it should not mess up anything. I can't remember a complaint I would have received about PulseAudio from Slint users - Including yourself <smile>. Maybe I forgot? Best, Didier On 08/06/2019 20:23, Jude DaShiell wrote: >>From what I've been reading on debian-user, and this is from sighted > users using the g.u.i., pulseaudio at most has two good use cases and > those are providing sound for a network, and being able to do many > samples of multiple sound streams. If you don't need to do any of > those, you don't need pulseaudio. It could be firefox is going to > deprecate pulseaudio in future too. > It's not as well documented as alsa either and its terminology imposes > an additional learning curve on top of alsa too. > My position on pulseaudio is if it gets installed, live with it until it > messes up then remove and prevent future downloads. > > On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, JOHN G HEIM wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 12:36:57 >> From: JOHN G HEIM <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >> <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx>, >> Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: no sound except speakup >> >> >> It was indeed pulseaudio. I killed the pulseaudio process and ran aplay >> again but it still did not work. But I noticed that another pulseaudio >> process had been started. So then I removed the pulseaudio package >> entirely. Now it works. But then I ran startx and got no speech from >> orca. But then I ran spd-conf and configured speech-dispatcher for alsa >> and now I get speech in the GUI too. So this is all good. This is my >> network server so I don't care about the GUI too much anyway. But it >> looks like if I really need a GUI, I'll have it. >> >> >> Thanks everybody. Linux rocks. Well, the linux support community, >> specifically speakup and orca, rocks. >> >> >> On 6/5/19 9:22 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote: >>> Hey John: When I've had similar issues with sound it's because there >>> is usually a pulse audio process running or trying to run. There are >>> work arounds to be able to use pulse audio but I believe it includes >>> running it as root or something. I don't use pulse audio so I'm not >>> sure of the work around but others are using it. >>> >>> ? Kirk >>> >>> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, John G Heim wrote: >>> >>>> I am running a debian buster machine in character mode. Speakup with >>>> software speech works fine but I can't get any other sound. When I >>>> use aplay to play a wav file, it prints the data indicating that it >>>> is playing the file but there is no sound. The same with espeak and >>>> spd-say at the command line. No error messages are displayed but >>>> there is no sound. I would think it was a volume problem except I can >>>> hear speakup. The sound card controls have volume settings, they are >>>> not user settings, right? >>>> >>>> >> > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
