no sound except speakup

[Jude DaShiell]

Didier,

Thanks for the url, I saved this one for later reading.  If a use case
for pulseaudio develops for me I have this as a resource.  Problems I've
had with pulseaudio happened in distributions before slint.

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:

> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 16:24:12
> From: Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>,
>     Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>, Kirk Reiser <kirk at reisers.ca>
> Subject: Re: no sound except speakup
>
> 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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