espeakup

[Willem Venter]

Hi.
Pulseaudio takes complete control of the audio device, so when other
devices try to use the soundcard through alsa things break.

A work around I use is playing sound using dmix. This means a bit more
processing and possibly a little latency for programs using pulse, but
on the other hand it's better than broken sound.

Remove package pulseaudio-alsa, which provides compatibility layer
between ALSA applications and PulseAudio. After this your ALSA apps
will use ALSA directly without being hooked by Pulse.
Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa.
Find and uncomment lines which load back-end drivers. Add device
parameters as follows. Then find and comment lines which load
autodetect modules.
load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix
load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop
# load-module module-udev-detect
# load-module module-detect

After rebooting pulseaudio won't grab the sound device, but instead
plays it through dmix.

hth
Willem

On 5/26/16, Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the error I was talking about earlier.
>
> Back story:  I'm trying to get console speech.  Since i can't right now,
> I'm doing this from a terminal, which reads badly. Once I type sudo
> espeakup, it'll read the top of the console screen, and the login prompt
> asking for a username.  After that it gives an error which i'll post.  I
> know it's a pulseaudio problem.  Most suggest I get rid of pulseaudio,
> and if that's the only solution there is, I guess i'll have to, but that
> creates more problems when it comes to having the system rediscover new
> sound drivers.  Long explanation short, it jacks things up!
>
> Error follows.
>
> [southernprince at roxie ~]$ sudo espeakup
> [sudo] password for southernprince:
> [southernprince at roxie ~]$ Assertion 'p' failed at pulse/simple.c:273,
> function pa_simple_write(). Aborting.
>
> It should be noted here that the error does not appear until I start to
> type.  It reads the login prompt, and once i hit the s for
> southernprinc, my username, the error appears.  If I could figure out
> how, I might turn keyecho off, which I wanna do anyway, but I don't know
> if that'd help anything.
>
> There ya have it folks.
>
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