espeakup

[Mark Peveto]

Hmm, sorry about that, folks.  I was replying to another message that had deleted before I could hit reply, and so my reply got sent to the wrong list.
*sigh*  I should go back to bed.

Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
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On Thu, 26 May 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> 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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