Didier, Thanks for the url, I saved this one for later reading. If a use case for pulseaudio develops for me I have this as a resource. Problems I've had with pulseaudio happened in distributions before slint. On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, Didier Spaier wrote: > Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 16:24:12 > From: Didier Spaier <didier@xxxxxxxx> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx>, Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: no sound except speakup > > 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
