From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from opera.rednote.net ([74.53.93.34]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IiVXh-0002ww-00 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:36:06 -0400 Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9IDa5rw020657 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:36:05 GMT Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9IDa5uC020656 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:36:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:36:05 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Update to alsa situation Message-ID: <20071018133605.GR6341@rednote.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7spk Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4545/Wed Oct 17 21:05:57 2007 on opera.rednote.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by opera.rednote.net id l9IDa5rw020657 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:36:06 -0000 PCM means your digital data is being convertred into analog--stands for "pulse code modulation." You can't hear digital, only analog. Humans are analog sensate. Zachary Kline writes: >=20 > Hiya, > I was able to, as it turns out, solve the ALSA situation myself. The w= eird thing which I still don't understand is that my headphones were regi= stered in Alsa as PCM, and there was an aditional headphone setting in th= e mixer which didn't seem to have any visible effect. I lowered the volu= me on PCM, and somehow the volume on the headphones lowered. Very weird = behavior if I do say so myself. > Now, the next problem I need to get out of the way is OSS emulation, as= it seems that Eflite doesn't enjoy being used at the same time Speakup i= s controlling the card--I have Emacspeak, and like Flite for it when I ca= n get it. > Anyhow, I'm just deeply puzzled as to why that PCM trick worked, and th= ankful for Greg's suggestion, even though it didn't fix things. > Thanks all, > Zack. >=20 > _________________________________________________________________ > Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 Play Star Shuffle:=A0 the word scram= ble challenge with star power. > http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=3Dstarshuffle_wlmailtextlin= k_oct > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup --=20 Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Ca= nada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org=09 Linux Foundation http://a11y.org