espeakup

[Jude DaShiell]

Once pulseaudio is removed from a machine, running alsactl init should 
initialize all sound cards to default values.  The pulseaudio-alsa 
package has to be deliberately installed on talkingarchlinux at least I 
don't know what sonar or manjaro or f123 do.

On Thu, 26 May 2016, Willem Venter wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 15:11:00
> From: Willem Venter <dwillemv 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
> 
> 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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