I found one thing out last night. pulseaudio prevents mpv mplayer and vlc from operating. It also puts lots of other pieces in other places so I'm going to need to reinstall without pulseaudio in order to get media players working. On Mon, 26 Jul 2021, Alexander Epaneshnikov wrote: > 25.07.2021 22:59, Joseph C. Lininger ?????: > > Thanks Janina. My experience has been similar to yours. The difference is > > that I can get speech with later versions, it's just that it drags a bit > > when echoing keys and it hiccups sometimes at the when it finishes talking. > > I had to restore my system from a BTRFS snapshot after upgrading (the pacman > > solution didn't work because I didn't have old enough versions) , but I've > > done similar to you for the moment and excluded alsa-lib, alsa-utils, > > alsa-tools, espeak, and espeakup. Hopefully they fix this so that we don't > > eventually have a situation where we can't, for example, upgrade the kernel > > because of an incompatible change to alsa. > > hello Joseph. I think your problem would be fixed by new pcaudiolib release[1] > you can unignore all packages except espeakup. > I will try to prepare a new version of pcaudiolib as soon as possible, > would you agree to test it? > > > Joe > > [1]: https://github.com/espeak-ng/pcaudiolib/issues/7 > >
