ubuntu 11.10 speakup and orca don't work together

[Justin Harford]

Hi

So I have the root user, and the user justin. Do I have to make it so
both of these user can access pulseaudio to make speakup and orca work
together? How could I do that?

Justin

On 1/19/12, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za> wrote:
> hI,
> Edit /etc/default/pulseaudio
> You also need to add every user that want to use sound to  the
> pulse-access group.
> HTH, Willem
>
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Justin Harford wrote:
>
>> Howdy
>>
>> I installed ubuntu 11.10 on my acer aspire one, and set up speakup. Now
>> the problem is that I cannot have speakup and orca running at the same
>> time. it's either one or the other, I think depending on the order that I
>> log in. If I log into unity first, orca works and speakup doesn't, and if
>> I log on to the console first, then speakup speaks and orca doesn't.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that this is because I have not set pulseaudio to run
>> systemwide. What do you all think? I've been searching the internet for
>> the last several hours for instructions on how to make pulseaudio run in
>> systemwide mode in ubuntu 11.10, and have essentially turned up nothing.
>> It looks like they really don't want you to figure this out. Has anyone
>> found a solution for this problem?
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
>> Regards
>> Justin Harford
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