speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

I have never gotten pulse to work at all, I had to bypass it to get any
audio in a text console.  If anyone knows more, I can post the details.

Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote:

> Rob Hudson <captinlogic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That sounds like Pulse grabs the whole device and won't let it go.
> > This is why I route mplayer to another card. I'm not sure if that'll
> > work either, however. I don't know if Pulse grabs all audio cards in
> > the system or not. Pulse sure sounds evil lol.
> 
> I think it does exactly that by default. You can change the configuration
> however. You can also run pasuspender to suspend it, and there's a command
> under pacmd to suspend individual cards.
> 
> In general, though, I think the right way to deal with Pulse is to work with
> it rather than against it by sorting out whatever the underlying problems are.
> I think there's enough talent within the accessibility and Linux audio
> communities to do this, but, so far, I haven't seen a good description of what
> the real issues are or what needs to be done.
> 
> It seems that too many people are content with work-arounds and no one is
> doing the real work to track down the root causes and fix them. That's a real
> cause for concern, because in the long run it will only mean more problems for
> new and existing users. Pulse is here to stay.
> 
> I have it working satisfactorily on my laptop and not quite satisfactorily on
> my desktop system. I submitted a patch to Debian to ensure that the Espeak
> package was compiled properly with Pulse support (previously, the Pulse
> support was being overwritten during the build process). There's an open
> Debian bug about problems with Pulse and Emacspeak speech servers.
> 
> I'm also waiting for patches to be integrated into FreeSWITCH to support Pulse
> - there are people working on those already.
> 
> Pacmd is an interesting tool. If there is active audio input/output, you can
> actually get a list of all the applications that are interacting with the
> Pulse server, and you can adjust the volume of the audio for each application.
> You can also move applications from one audio device to another, though I
> haven't experimented with that yet. There are many other features as well.
> 
> The key to making Pulse work reliably is to make sure that nothing you're
> using tries to bypass it by writing directly to the Alsa devices.
> 
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