espeakup alsa errors

Wed Jun 29 13:16:06 EDT 2016

Could someone repost the link? I want to bookmark it and have
inadvertently killed the email that included it.

Also, it's very unfortunate that we need to rely on udev to definitively
assign sound devices as default, or a particular hw: value. That makes
lots of things hard, including scripts and including assigning certain
devices to certain kinds of work, like hw:0 for speakup, and hw:8 for
high end audio editing, as an example.

The only reason udev is a probably for this is that how to do this isn't
well documented, and there's no tool I know of that front ends the task
properly.

PS: We should also be able to clearly define which HW: devices are for
pulse, and which for jack, and which for alsa only. Is that too much to
ask?

Janina

Kirk Reiser writes:
> 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
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > Speakup mailing list
> > > > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> > > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > > > > > > -- > Kristoffer Gustafsson
> > > > Sal?ngsgatan 7a
> > > > tel:033-12 60 93
> > > > mobil: 0730-500934
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Speakup mailing list
> > > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
> > 			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
> > 		Email:	janina at rednote.net
> > 
> > Linux Foundation Fellow
> > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
> > 
> > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> -- 
> Well that's it then, colour me secure!
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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
		Email:	janina at rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa