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[Christopher Moore]

Ok, back to my original question:
Can you specify the espeakup audio device?  If so, you should be able to 
keep pulse audio from using that device.

The Windows analogy is telling jaws to use a specific sound card and 
make the second card the default to be used by other apps.

Chris

On 9/30/2010 10:00 AM, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:45:39AM -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote:
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
> Yes, that's why it works for you.  My card doesn't do hardware mixing, so I experience the issues.
>
>            Kenny
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