Debian and ALSA/Pulseaudio

[Robert Spangler]

Hello all,

I installed Debian Squeeze then later updated it to testing to get the 
newer gnome, Orca, and such.  Now, when I reboot, I get into gnome and 
Orca is working well but when I switch to another console, I have no 
sound.  I think that Pulseaudio is taking over aLSA or something because 
I hear Speakup reading the init script messages when the system is 
booting and if I reboot it reads the shutdown messages.

I pulled up gnome-terminal and sent some text to espeak and got a few 
errors with alsalib and something about how it couldn't find a jack 
server running.  I'm glad to have Gnome and Orca running but I want 
access to other consoles with speakup as well.

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Thanks,
Robert Spangler, B.A. in Urban Studies and Spanish
spangler.robert at gmail.com