2009/8/28 Susan Cragin <susancragin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Change -- The program I test with is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. > > Yesterday's Ubuntu updates produced a rash of pulseaudio changes, and suddenly alsa works with wine, without stumbling. > Today's secret to making it work: > In System/Preferences/Startup applications, uncheck pulseaudio > sudo apt-get install esound Why do you need to install esound? > sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf > autospawn = no > Then every time your computer starts, run killall pulseaudio in terminal first. > (Because the Startup Applications menu doesn't really work.) Painful bug in Ubuntu. Yet another reason why I stay away from it at all costs :) > I trained and ran Dragon NaturallySpeaking without a problem. Excellent news!
