vinux and speakup

[Christopher Brannon]

Kenny Hitt <kenny at hittsjunk.net> writes:

> Hi.  Unless you edit files and enable options discouraged by the
> pulseaudio developer, pulseaudio will take over all audio devices.
> Once it grabs them, only apps that output through pulseaudio will be
> able to generate sound.

Hi.  I have pulse running over here, on my ArchLinux system.  But I'm
also running at least one application, namely espeakup, which does not
use Pulse Audio.  No, Pulse does not run in system mode.  It runs as the
user "chris", and I use it for music and other things.  Aside from
adding the "chris" account to the realtime scheduling group, I don't
remember doing anything special when I installed it.  So why does
everyone else have problems with Pulse that I don't have?  Granted, my
card does hardware mixing.  Maybe that explains it.

-- Chris