On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:57 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: > I've removed gdm from my Lucid system, after Tony Sales > (founder/driver of Vinux) suggested it. I'm already feeling rather > attached to my gdm-less system. It now boots into a very nicely > talking console login prompt. I just login, do whatever I like on the > console, and type 'startx' if I want Firefox or other graphical > applications. > > I'll make this commitment to the devs of PA: If you support me (I > shouldn't require much) in getting Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid working with PA > in system-wide daemon mode, I will work hard to make sure the next > release is done the "right" way. Of course, the details of the > "right" way still need to be worked out, given that we need to process > speech coming from the /dev/softsynth kernel module. In my understanding it really doesn't require much, just copying some key-file somewhere and running pulse with --system.