Hi Col, 1. I gave you some examples what doesn't work as expected. How should I run my text-to-speech server before login to have audiooutput for reading the login screen? 2. Running daemons worked well under alsa (see my previous post). I am using every day this setup. Speechd runs with uid speech-dispatcher and I can also play sound as user halim. Please don't tell us that this isn't or wasn't possible. Please try to understand the problem and help if you can. I like pa and it's great new features. But it introduced problems wich should be fixed. Your given examples are related to x-sessions. Go one step back. gdm starts and the screenreader->speech-server (before login). If pulseaudio starts at this time, it would use gdm uid. In this case the audiocard can't be used by another pulseaudio after successful login. Please correct me when Iam wrong. Greetings Halim
