speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy

[Rob Hudson]

Can you put something like
ao=alsa:device=hw=0
in your ~/.mplayer/config. I think this will get mplayer to bypass pulse 
completely, but not sure.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at gregn.net>
To: <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy


> Jean,
> it's a long time since I upgraded to squeeze/gdm3, and got it
> talking. I do remember I found instructions on the web on how to do
> it, but don't know the URL. As far as I recall (and I could be wrong),
> I copied my user's .orca directory to /var/lib/gdm3/, and changed
> ownership to debian-gdm.debian-gdm. I certainly did do that part, but
> again don't recall if there was more to it or not. The best suggestion
> I can give you is to google it.
>
> The login with gdm3 speaks, but wasn't fully accessible in
> squeeze. Fortunately, once you manage to play around, and choose the
> user you want to login as, it remembers that. So, when the gdm3 login
> comes up, all you have to do subsequently is to hit enter, type your
> password, hit enter, and you're in.
>
> Jason, how did you get everything working with pulse? I seem to be
> almost there, but not quite. As far as I can tell, I'm getting a gdm
> login on tty7, but no speech. I set pulse to start system wide (never
> mind the recommendation not to). I added greg, and speech-dispatcher to
> the pulse-access group. I also set speech-dispatcher to load at system
> start.
>
> I still can't figure out what user espeakup runs as, and get:
>
> ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
> Access denied
>
> along with a bunch of other alsa messages when espeakup starts. Also, when
> speech-dispatcher starts, and when I try to play a file with mplayer,
> I get:
>
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
>
> In the case of mplayer, I created a /home/greg/.asoundrc file, and put
> in it:
>
> pcm.dsp {
>    type plug
>    slave.pcm "dmix"
> }
>
> but that still doesn't help. Can anyone please tell me what I'm
> missing with these?
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:31:18PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
>>
>> On my laptop, it all just worked without any additional configuration. I 
>> have
>> Speakup and Espeakup installed, as well as PulseAudio, which is 
>> configured (as
>> is the default) as the default audio output destination in Alsa.
>>
>> I haven't seen any crashes or problems with this configuration. The sound 
>> card
>> is an on-board Intel audio device.
>>
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