voxin speakup connector and Pulse

[Rob Hudson]

I solved this problem. If you are on a gui, install gnome-alsamixer and open 
it up. You are then presented with tab controls for each audio card you have 
installed.
my soundblaster has a checkbox that says something like "analog source." 
Check that box. Then go back into your terminal and do as root
alsactl store
alsa force-reload
Then restart your pulseaudio server, in whatever way is appropriate for your 
distro.
This is just a front end for  alsamixer, so you can probably do this in 
alsamixer itself, but I found it rather hard to navigate with speakup. This 
way was a lot easier.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: voxin speakup connector and Pulse


> Hi,
>
> If there's a way to avoid this situation, I haven't found it. I console
> myself that the Speakup Connector isn't the only ill behaved audio
> application in this regard, but I'll spare us all chapter and verse on
> that topic. Suffice it to say that I now require a minimum of two audio
> devices to run screen reader support on Linux, one for Speakup and one
> for Orca. A third is minimal for other audio apps, imo.
>
> PS: One example of other hoggy apps would be Fluidsynth with aconnect.
>
> Janina
>
> Rob Hudson writes:
>> This really works amazingly well and I love it. However...
>> This does not seem to play well with pulse audio. When I run it, it hogs 
>> the entire
>> sound card to itself, causing me to have to switch the desktop to a 
>> different sound
>> card. Now this probably is not a big deal since I do in fact have other 
>> cards to
>> switch to, but is there a way to prevent it hogging the entire card to 
>> itself?
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>
> -- 
>
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