espeakup alsa errors

Wed Jun 29 14:50:57 EDT 2016

udev has legitimate bugs and these are just the accessibility-connected 
bugs.

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:16:06
> From: Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> To: speakup at linux-speakup.org
> Subject: Re: espeakup alsa errors
> 
> 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
>> > > > > _______________________________________________
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>> > > > > > > > -- > Kristoffer Gustafsson
>> > > > Sal?ngsgatan 7a
>> > > > tel:033-12 60 93
>> > > > mobil: 0730-500934
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>> > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>> > > 
>> > > -- 
>> > > 
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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
>> > 
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> > 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
>
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