speakup, audio solutions

[John G. Heim]

I'm no expert in this area but don't you guys worry that you are trying 
to hold back the ocean with a teaspoon?  You can't fight the march of 
technology. If pulse is the wave of the future, I would tend to want to 
get started working with it rather than tossing it aside.

I just started working with sonar linux last week. I put it on my backup 
desktop at work. In my limited testing up to this point, it seems to be 
rock solid. I plan to continue trying it on my backup workstation at 
work and on my machine at home for a few more days before converting 
the machine I use to earn my bread and beer.

I can understand an attitude of saying that you need to postpone an 
upgrade because the technology just isn't there yet. That's why I'm 
typing this message on a machine still running debian squeeze.  But as 
soon as I am sure I can switch to a newer distro that works, I'm doing it.

On 11/30/13 22:38, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Yes, screen rocks!
>
> I do keep the gui, mainly for firefox even though it requires that I use
> a second audio device.
>
> Everything else is tty's and screen terminals. About half of my tty's
> launch subject specific screen sessions with multiple terminals. In all
> of those, I have aliases for mplayer to talk to several additional audio
> devices, or ecaplay, or aplay. All works like a charm.
>
> Janina
>
> Doug Smith writes:
>>
>>
>> I really have quit a bit to say here.  I have also terminated pulse with extreme prejudice on this system.  I have also terminated the entire
>> graphical user interface with the same finality.  I am using debian testing without the desktop on it.
>>
>> The way it works is that, when you use the text-based installer to install the system, it uses alsa for the sound.  I have speakup system wide and I
>> have a fully functioning sound system on here that performs perfectly.  I can use multiple audio sources, and I have nothing to worry about because I
>> do not have to, if I do not want to, switch between consoles.  Where it works well, I just use screen and there is no problem for me to play my
>> descriptive movie, program and whatever else all at once.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Doug Smith: Special Agent
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>>
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