espeakup alsa errors

[Zachary Kline]

Kirk et al,

This is a problem I’ve ran into before as well. I ended up just adding kernel parameters to my boot command line. It’s hardly ideal, but at least I understand what all is going on now, more or less.


> On Jun 29, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Kirk Reiser <kirk at reisers.ca> wrote:
> 
> I will say that the link posted pointed to some interesting
> information. I was having a very similar problem on my Chromebook. It
> took a long time to figure out that it was because alsa was trying to
> talk to the HDMI and not letting me get espeakup running. The thing
> that sort of bugs me is that udev should be smart enough to know if it
> doesn't see an hdmi device connected it should ignore it and move on
> to the next available device. Oh well. Alsa documentation has always
> been the pits.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
>> No, dmix is part of alsa.
>> 
>> 
>> Jude DaShiell writes:
>>> If I have this right, dmix is part of pulseaudio.
>>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>>> > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:21:07
>>> > From: Kristoffer Gustafsson <kg.kristoffer at gmail.com>
>>> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>> >     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>>> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>>> > Subject: Re: espeakup alsa errors
>>> > > Hi.
>>> > I've just discovered something. I can't run any tts at all i think.
>>> > I'm trying festival too, and I get much errors about pcm-dmix, cannot
>>> > open slave device.
>>> > Everything worked fine before, and now on this computer... :(
>>> > /Kristoffer
>>> > > 2016-06-28 21:12 GMT+02:00, Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com>:
>>> > > Kristoffer Gustafsson <kg.kristoffer at gmail.com> writes:
>>> > > > > > but when I type espeakup I get just much errors about alsa.
>>> > > > What is going on here?
>>> > > > > Hi,
>>> > > Can you save those errors to a file and post it?
>>> > > > > -- Chris
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>> 
>> Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
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>> 
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> 
> -- 
> Well that's it then, colour me secure!
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