speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy

[Jason White]

Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote:
> covici at ccs.covici.com <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > Default sink name: auto_null
> > Default source name: auto_null.monitor
> 
> These are very suspect. They should be set to the actual sound card. Might
> there be a permission issue in accessing the card? I'm not sure where it
> writes its logs by default, but it appears not to be finding and accessing the
> audio device correctly, hence no audible output.

this page may help:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio#Permissions