Thanks to tanuk at iki.fi I got vlc playing over my usb speakers. The screen reader speech is still going out over the 3.5MM jack speakers. My guess is I may have to fix asound.state or asound.conf I'll find out in a little while. My /etc/pulse/default.pa to get this far follows the last line I modified with the help of tanuk at iki.fi to get this working to the point it works now. The rest is as installed on talkingarchlinux at http://talkingarch.tk/ and I put an r.f.e. in with that distro to have usb ports checked for speakers and doing sound card output search selection: #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF # # This file is part of PulseAudio. # # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. # This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user # (i.e. not in system mode) .nofail ### Load something into the sample cache #load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga #load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/device-added.oga #load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/device-added.oga #load-sample-lazy pulse-access /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/message.oga .fail ### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices load-module module-device-restore load-module module-stream-restore load-module module-card-restore ### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files ### stored in /usr/share/application load-module module-augment-properties ### Should be after module-*-restore but before module-*-detect load-module module-switch-on-port-available ### Load audio drivers statically ### (it's probably better to not load these drivers manually, but instead ### use module-udev-detect -- see below -- for doing this automatically) #load-module module-alsa-sink #load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0 #load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input #load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input #load-module module-null-sink #load-module module-pipe-sink ### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available .ifexists module-udev-detect.so load-module module-udev-detect .else ### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support) load-module module-detect .endif ### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present .ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so .nofail load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2 .fail .endif ### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware .ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so load-module module-bluetooth-policy .endif .ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so load-module module-bluetooth-discover .endif ### Load several protocols .ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so load-module module-esound-protocol-unix .endif load-module module-native-protocol-unix ### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented ### here if you plan to use paprefs) #load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp #load-module module-native-protocol-tcp #load-module module-zeroconf-publish ### Load the RTP receiver module (also configured via paprefs, see above) #load-module module-rtp-recv ### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above) #load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 sink_properties="device.description='RTP Multicast Sink'" #load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor ### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool. ### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually ### loaded modules. .ifexists module-gconf.so .nofail load-module module-gconf .fail .endif ### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user ### during runtime ### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent modules ### that look up the default sink/source get the right value load-module module-default-device-restore ### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are ### connected to dies, similar for sources load-module module-rescue-streams ### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink. load-module module-always-sink ### Honour intended role device property load-module module-intended-roles ### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long load-module module-suspend-on-idle ### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit ### when no local session needs us anymore. .ifexists module-console-kit.so load-module module-console-kit .endif .ifexists module-systemd-login.so load-module module-systemd-login .endif ### Enable positioned event sounds load-module module-position-event-sounds ### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active load-module module-role-cork ### Modules to allow autoloading of filters (such as echo cancellation) ### on demand. module-filter-heuristics tries to determine what filters ### make sense, and module-filter-apply does the heavy-lifting of ### loading modules and rerouting streams. load-module module-filter-heuristics load-module module-filter-apply # X11 modules should not be started from default.pa so that one daemon # can be shared by multiple sessions. ### Load X11 bell module #load-module module-x11-bell sample=x11-bell ### Register ourselves in the X11 session manager #load-module module-x11-xsmp ### Publish connection data in the X11 root window #.ifexists module-x11-publish.so #.nofail #load-module module-x11-publish #.fail #.endif ### Make some devices default #set-default-sink output #set-default-source input set-default-sink alsa_output.usb-C-Media_INC._USB_Audio-00.analog-stereo --
