no sound except speakup

[Didier Spaier]

Hello Jude,

I highly recommend reading PulseAudio under the hood from Victor Gaydov:
https://gavv.github.io/articles/pulseaudio-under-the-hood/

It is not in the "official" documentation but provides a very in depth
information while staying practical and understandable by the casual users
like me. I just hope that would exist a similar document about ALSA.

My position is that if properly configured it should not mess up anything.

I can't remember a complaint I would have received about PulseAudio
from Slint users - Including yourself <smile>. Maybe I forgot?

Best, Didier 

On 08/06/2019 20:23, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>From what I've been reading on debian-user, and this is from sighted
> users using the g.u.i., pulseaudio at most has two good use cases and
> those are providing sound for a network, and being able to do many
> samples of multiple sound streams.  If you don't need to do any of
> those, you don't need pulseaudio.  It could be firefox is going to
> deprecate pulseaudio in future too.
> It's not as well documented as alsa either and its terminology imposes
> an additional learning curve on top of alsa too.
> My position on pulseaudio is if it gets installed, live with it until it
> messes up then remove and prevent future downloads.
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, JOHN G HEIM wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 12:36:57
>> From: JOHN G HEIM <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> To: Kirk Reiser <kirk at reisers.ca>,
>>     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> Subject: Re: no sound except speakup
>>
>>
>> It was indeed pulseaudio. I killed the pulseaudio process and ran aplay
>> again but it still did not work. But I noticed that another pulseaudio
>> process had been started. So then I removed the pulseaudio package
>> entirely. Now it works. But then I ran startx and got no speech from
>> orca. But then I ran spd-conf and configured speech-dispatcher for alsa
>> and now I get speech in the GUI too. So this is all good. This is my
>> network server so I don't care about the GUI too much anyway. But it
>> looks like if I really need a GUI, I'll have it.
>>
>>
>> Thanks everybody. Linux rocks. Well, the linux support community,
>> specifically speakup and orca, rocks.
>>
>>
>> On 6/5/19 9:22 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
>>> Hey John: When I've had similar issues with sound it's because there
>>> is usually a pulse audio process running or trying to run. There are
>>> work arounds to be able to use pulse audio but I believe it includes
>>> running it as root or something. I don't use pulse audio so I'm not
>>> sure of the work around but others are using it.
>>>
>>> ? Kirk
>>>
>>> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, John G Heim wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am running a debian buster machine in character mode. Speakup with
>>>> software speech works fine but I can't get any other sound. When I
>>>> use aplay to play a wav file, it prints the data indicating that it
>>>> is playing the file but there is no sound. The same with espeak and
>>>> spd-say at the command line. No error messages are displayed but
>>>> there is no sound. I would think it was a volume problem except I can
>>>> hear speakup. The sound card controls have volume settings, they are
>>>> not user settings, right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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