espeakup

[Jude DaShiell]

In your user directory, try something like: sudo -H rm -fr 
./.config/pulseaudio <enter>. On Fri, 27 May 2016, Mark Peveto wrote:

> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 12:20:19
> From: Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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> Subject: Re: espeakup
> 
> What file names do I look for?  I did a fresh install yesterday afternoon, so yeah, I could try.
>
> Mark Peveto
> Registered Linux user number 600552
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>
>
> On Fri, 27 May 2016, Willem Venter wrote:
>
>> Can you get access to the files on the disk? You might try deleting
>> some of the user pulseaudio configs.
>>
>> On 5/27/16, Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Oh, I'm sure it's good information, friend, I'm just not having much
>> > luck.  Think tha'ts more on my end.  I'm not as good at this as I should be.
>> >
>> > Mark Peveto
>> > Registered linux number 600552
>> > Sent from sonar using thunderbird.
>> >
>> > On 05/26/2016 02:11 PM, Willem Venter wrote:
>> >> 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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