system with speakup software already installed?

[Kerry Hoath]

/dev/dsp is an oss device not alsa.
Fix whatever program to use alsa devices where possible.

Some people tell me pulsaudio is good; and the best thing since slice bread.
Others sware you should uninstall it (which might break gnome etc).
Sorry I only have ubuntu at command-line at this stage, no gnome and Orca 
involved yet.
I will look at viubuntu soon.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty Litter" <n8kl at insightbb.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed?


> Kerry,
> I followed your instructions and was able to create all the speakup 
> modules in vibuntu 1.2 which I installed on an unused partition from a 
> memory stick. My audapter hardware synth worked as expected but softsynth 
> had problems. I am using gnome speech with espeak and the original 
> pulseaudio from vibuntu 1.2. When it does work, it chops a little of each 
> letter or the first word on a line. Sometimes I get messages about not 
> able to open /dev/dsp. I don't know enough about alsa or pulseaudio to fix 
> this. Also the espeakup daemon in /usr/bin is espeakup without the d like 
> it used to be.
> A few days ago I did install the speakup-source package and tried the 
> module-assistant which never compiled correctly.
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