On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:29 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 23.12.09 15:26, Halim Sahin (halim.sahin at freenet.de) wrote: > > > > > 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? > > On Fedora at least the screenreader runs as normal process in the gdm > pseudo-session which also happens to run a PA instance. So everything > should be fine here, and I am quite sure this is not only done on > Fedora this way but all other distributions that use a current version > of gdm. Of course, if you use KDE things might be different... > > > 2. Running daemons worked well under alsa (see my previous post). > > I am using every day this setup. > > Running PA doesn't mean ALSA is out of the game. PA builds on ALSA and > as such everything you could do with ALSA before stays available with > PA too. > > However input output deamons should definitely be part of the user > session. That is true for PA itself AND any kind of speech daemon and suchlike. > > Lennart > I believe in his particular use-case he's concerned about the screenreader prior to the DE starting up (boot messages and the like?).
