For the record I'm using talkingarchlinux http://talkingarch.tk/ and I learned from a contact on another list that the espeak package which is used by espeakup is the package that provides espeakup espeakup's audio support. Having downloaded the espeak package from the archlinux community repository and gone into the source code for it, the package is built with a Makefile. The Makefile has provision for portaudio pulseaudio and sata or sada. Now the variable that gets assigned is AUDIO and that assignment is uncommented on portaudio only for talkingarchlinux which explains why I couldn't get off of the 3.5MM speakers I think. I uncommented the AUDIO = pulse and ran make on the Makefile and got several warnings but no errors. I don't know what will happen once I do a sudo -H make install and then reboot though. I think I'll take precautionary measures and then try doing that tomorrow after breakfast and coffee with the understanding the whole system could go silent permanently. It will mean I'll need to reinstall the system but I have brailled instructions so I can do that pretty quickly in the event this happens. I tried switching sinks for sound and was given an adjustment to have pulseaudio not remember the default sink when I boot up so it ought to have to find a sink then use it but this hasn't yet helped all that much yet. I'll know more tomorrow and let everyone know what happens over here when it will be possible for me to do so. One thing I managed to do was to find out the long name of the usb speakers on my system the other day and I'll share that technique now. I booted into the system and had the 3.5MM speakers disconnected. Everything was silent after login. So I ran speaker-test and had the static go over the usb speakers. I stopped the speaker-test utility and then did sudo -H alsactl nrestore and sudo -H alsactl store. Then as user I ran aplay -l >speakers.txt. Once done, I rebooted the system with the 3.5MM speakers attached and examined speakers.txt and the usb speakers were in that speakers.txt file so I checked pactl list sinks and got the same name for the second sink. Then I had something I could modify /etc/pulse/default.pa with and for a little while when pulseaudio came up running I was able to get vlc to play on the usb speakers. The pulseaudio doesn't always come up on this system for some reason and sometimes when pulseaudio does not come up it can't be started either it's as if pulseaudio is somehow jammed. So that's what I got for now, more later. On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Bryan Duarte wrote: > Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:08:33 > From: Bryan Duarte <bryan0731 at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> > Cc: Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi>, pulseaudio-discuss at freedesktop.org > Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] another reason not to like pulseaudio > >> Jude, > > I found the same thing happen to me also with the pulse audio not ever fully being removed as a priority audio output device. I have attempted to change its order, completely turn it off, and set the USB audio driver as the priority audio output device yet speech will not deploy through it. There has got to be a way for us to get these drivers installed and set to default or better yet convert the pulse audio so we can get speech output. This is seriously crazy that this is the only thing keeping blind people from having full and complete access to our devices! >> On Mar 5, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote: >> >>> Jude > > -- -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
