Wow! That's a lot of replies! Thanks, but the first reply was right. The problem was 100% my spaceyness, which unfortunately happens a lot. I had the system wide speech-dispatcher using alsa, not pulse. That probably locked the sound card somehow. When I set it to pulse, I get sound everywhere. There are still tons of goobers, but they're all of the sort I can work out. Thanks! Bill On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > '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/] > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >
