speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy

[acollins at icsmail.net]

Craig.  Check out the live cd on debian.live.net.  Gnome on it works
fine, it's just that speakup gets clobered by pulse.

Gene

>Ok. So I got my fresh wheezy install done in another vm. Turns out
>that gnome speaks, but isn't very talkative. What I mean is that for
>example ctrl+alt+d gives no indication I'm on the desktop. Pressing
>alt+f1 tells me I'm in a menu, but arrowing up/down/left/right gives
>no speech. Doesn't matter, since I don't want to migrate to a fresh
>install, I want to get this one working.
>
>I did discover that pulse works in the fresh system, including
>mplayer, so I cheated. I got rid of /etc/pulse in my upgraded vm, and
>replaced it with the one from the fresh vm. I put the original
>/usrbin/pulseaudio back into place, set mplayer to use pulse for
>output, and rebooted. Mplayer seems to work now with no pulse issues.
>
>Since I now know the gnome issues aren't virtualbox related, I ran
>startx as greg on both virtual systems, and compared my
>.xsession-errors. Turns out they're similar except for one
>difference. On the upgraded system, my .xsession-errors shows this
>repeatedly:
>
>Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail-gnome"
>
>I seem to have all the gail stuff installed though:
>
>i A libgail-3-0                     - GNOME Accessibility
>Implementation Library
>i A   libgail-common                  - GNOME Accessibility
>Implementation Library
>i A libgail18                       - GNOME Accessibility
>Implementation Library
>
>I did some googling on this, but can't find anything specifically
>related to gnome3, and 32-bit wheezy. If I could figure this out, I
>can probably get gnome talking. Any thoughts?
>
>Greg
>
>
>On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 06:30:18PM -0400, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
>> Let us know if you get anything to speak in gnome.  What I did to get
>> console things to speak again was to change  /etc/pulse/client.conf to
>> autospawn=no but maybe that breaks gnome.
>> 
>
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