On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, at 08:37 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > -- > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:45:52 > From: Mark Peveto via Support <support at sonargnulinux.com> > Reply-To: Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com> > To: Sonar support <support at sonargnulinux.com> > Subject: [Support] epic fail on espeak research > > Well, i had to try it. > > I went ahead and installed espeakup-git, and espeak-ng-git, hoping to > perhaps > solve our problem for us, but instead I ran into these. > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 ~]$ sudo espeakup > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 ~]$ Assertion 'p' failed at pulse/simple.c:273, > function pa_simple_write(). Aborting. That could be related to how espeak-ng is using the PA simple API (which I assume is what it's doing). Do you know if this has been resolved? > As you can see from above, I executed sudo espeakup, and got no errors. > But > when I switched over to a console and logged in, when espeakup should've > spoken, O got those errors. Next, I went back to my terminal, and tried > to at > least get espeak-ng-git itself to talk to me. It did, and witn no > errors. > > sudo espeak > > hi > > hi > > hi > > Again, it echoed back hi, and returned no errors, or they'd have been > printed > out. Next, I switched over to my etc/pulse directory, and edited > default.pa, > which my output shows. What you don't get to see is my change to > default.pa. > I went down the file, until I found load-module load-module-udev-detect, > and > added tshed=0 to the end of the line. > > load-module load-module-udev-detect tsched=0 > > Then saved the file. > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 ~]$ cd /etc/pulse > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 pulse]$ sudo nano default.pa > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 pulse]$ cd > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 ~]$ sudo pkill pulseaudio > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 ~]$ > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 ~]$ sudo espeakup > > I killed pulseaudio so it'd restart with my new settings, then executed > espeakup again. Switching to a console again, I got errors, but after > changing > the line in default.pa, the errirs changed slightly. > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 ~]$ ALSA lib > pcm_dmix.c:1029:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) > unable to open slave > > error: Device or resource busy > > espeakup: pcm.c:1122: snd_pcm_drain: Assertion `pcm' failed. > > > [southernprince at purrwurr1 ~]$ > > -- That particular error/warning is from espeakup not using PulseAudio directly but via (presumably) portaudio. -- Arun
