'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 04/01/10 16:56 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote: >> Pulseaudio starts, and speech-dispatcher and speechd-up work with it >> just fine at boot. Since this is a distro for the blind, I boot into > > Err, are you sure that speech* are actually using PA and not ALSA > directly? Your description is reminiscent of either a dummy/null sink > being used for PA, which normally means another application has > exclusive access to ALSA's *hw (or via OSS emulation /dev/dsp). I think you're right re: the Dummy/null sink thing. I suspect it's just that the "pulse" user has no rights to the /dev/snd/* nodes and adding that user to the "audio" group will make it work. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
