espeakup alsa errors

Thu Jun 30 06:06:54 EDT 2016

Hi.
this was not a good idea.
I got errors, and then linux removed asound.conf
now I've got to install linux again.
or do you have a solution?
/Kristoffer

2016-06-30 1:36 GMT+02:00, Shawn Kirkpatrick <shawn at shawnk.ca>:
> The best way around this is not to use hw: values if at all possible. Just
> call the card by name. To find out what the names are just run: cat
> /proc/asound/cards and you'll see the card names in brackets. Just use the
> name as seen in the brackets without the space padding and things should
> work as expected
> even if the card indexes happen to move around on reboot.
> The same goes for setting the default system sound card or the default card
> for a specific user.
> To set the system default you'd edit /etc/asound.conf and add something
> like:
> pcm.!default {
>      type hw
> card Audigy
> }
> On my system this sets the default sound card to the sound blaster audigy.
> Or to set the default card for a specific user you'd put that code in
> .asoundrc in the user's home directory.
> Depending on what program you're using the syntax for specifying a device by
> name can get a bit tricky (upper and lower case letters matter) but it
> should be possible.
> This all assumes the only problem you're having is with the card indexes
> moving around. A bigger problem can be pulse audio trying to take exclusive
> control of a card. In that case the only thing to do is disable pulse audio
> or figure out how to get whatever you're using to work with it. It's been my
> experience that things just work if pulse audio is completely disabled but
> this may effect some things if you're using the gui.
> My system has 7 sound cards so I've had to learn the hard way how to make
> alsa maintain order.
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
>>
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>

-- 
Kristoffer Gustafsson
Salängsgatan 7a
tel:033-12 60 93
mobil: 0730-500934