I was able to get to a semi-good state by not having pulseaudio autospawn in /etc/pulse/client.conf. The computer comes up silent until I log into gnome, and Orca works. When I switch to a console, it's silent until I log in and restart speechd-up. The problem is that there is no audio at the console until I log in. There is also no audio at the gnome login. Grr... Isn't there any way to get audio working before a user logs in? Bill On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to get Ubuntu/Lucid working well with applications for the > blind and visually impaired. ?Orca is working quite well now with > pulseaudio. ?The other critical application is speakup, which reads > text on the Ctrl+Alt+F1-6 consoles. ?Speakup has issues with > pulseaudio, and I need some advice about working them out. > > It is important, but not required, that speakup run before the user > logs in, so it can read the login prompt and some system messages. > Ideally, it does this with speechd-up which talks to speech-dispatcher > which generates speech through pulseadio. ?Thus, once speakup starts, > it sounds like I need to somehow launch pulseaudio, as some user like > gdm. ?When the user logs in, speechd-up needs to switch to talking to > that user's instance of pulseadio, so that speach from both the > console windows and Orca can stream through the same instance of > speech-dispatcher. ?However, when I try this, the gdm version of > pulseaudio seems to grab the sound card, and the second instance is > mute. > > The obvious solution is for me to just run one copy of pulseaudio (as > root?) at boot time and make all users access that copy, just like the > older sound systems. ?However, I understand that is frowned upon by > the pulseaudio developers. > > What is the right solution? ?Remember, I need sound both before > logging in, and after, and they need to play nice, as the console > windows may not be logged in, while the Gnome desktop is. ?I also > prefer sound from speakup to work as soon as the module is loaded. ?I > understand the old system for doing this, but not how to make it work > with pulseaudio. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Bill >
