speakup, audio solutions

[Rob Hudson]

If you have gnome or a variant installed, my understanding is that you can't 
remove pulse audio without breaking stuff. If you install XFCE desktop, I'm 
told you can avoid installing pulse along with it. I haven't tried this yet 
though. I understand XFCE is only minimally accessible.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alonzo cuellar" <mariachiac at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
<speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: speakup, audio solutions


>I understand. I never really figured out how to get rid of pulse audio on
> fedora systems. I've always configured to use my arch installation with
> alsa. I've not had a need for a second audio device. Though I do believe 
> if
> your doing some type of recording... A second audio device might be 
> needed.
> I think i read a few postings on how to disable pulse audio on Fedora a
> while back. Which included touching
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio
> and removing pulseaudio and the pulse audio alsa plugins.
> This is probably not the right way to do it though. I to rely on speakup
> and haven't found a way to disable pulseaudio when installing fedora.
> When I tried disabling pulse audio this way system audio would break and I
> would not have speach.
> Now if you have to configure aound.conf in /etc... I did not do so since I
> only have one sound card on this system.
> On my currently arch installation I have an .asoundrc file to have the
> proper mic use for voice calls.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated and perhaps I'll give fedora a try
> once again.
>
> Alonzo
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 07:52:16PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> Pulseaudio doesn't work for me because I rely on Speakup pretty
>> thoroughly. I have several issues with it including very choppy speech
>> and stupid behavior over audio stopping play when I move out of the tty
>> where I invoked the audio.
>>
>> I am about to go file an RFE with pulse to ask for an easy way to
>> configure pulse to leave any particular audio device alone. I know one
>> can terminate pulse on a per app basis, but that's too cumbersome, imo.
>> And, I think there should be something easier than writing a custom udev
>> rule to accomplish excluding some particular audio device from pulse.
>>
>> Janina
>>
>> Alonzo cuellar writes:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > This is just a question I have. For those using systems like fefora,
>> > debian, ubuntu, etc? How do you use speakup?
>> > I know pulse audio has problems with system-wide audio. So what are 
>> > people
>> > doing these days? I can see maybe taking a seperate audio device, but 
>> > is
>> > there other work arounds?
>> > This protains to those who use pulseaudio on their systems. It wa just
>> > something to ask the list since I'm sure many people face different
>> > situations with their setups.
>> >
>> > Alonzo
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>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200
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>> Email: janina at rednote.net
>>
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