From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id F1C401EF7B3; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 19:59:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-oa0-x234.google.com (mail-oa0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::234]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D25841EF768 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 19:59:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-oa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id h16so12176233oag.25 for ; Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:59:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=ZnkKrZv9JSdCJUJ8wgdg9OK5D5Si+mIEB99F7vwUg00=; b=hT9IcxYvxrp8B4paOIiOyBugKyFyEChOIY+V/og77bOmNXKqRIyCfX7OWJPhIay1HW yx1RAPlyeq1NcJBvyslgBOsxAO7PfPGZvHctjpkVETWp5cqe1Ki7Lru9HyUc73VaIuqS TP1Lu9OjHkJjXqeXqJaaZIpJFOInnJSkj7yYi9cXKUEORN6s+lNcXhSb3ZvPW8XtTO9Z TZkOrMkJaCfDj1CYcoD6f4IP8WMdIezaNSWIo1I/BgA6CYmqaQNnxdSHOEbaOWSsiLVI 7BgzOQW41qzmSYlxYnjj7DgZDMWqLTcxOIg9gU5z0ZuxnGNLb8RYAKF7lxFmlnQZ+ua9 J9oQ== X-Received: by 10.182.70.5 with SMTP id i5mr52746438obu.8.1385945977998; Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from redstar (cpe-68-206-114-187.stx.res.rr.com. [68.206.114.187]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ej7sm9160695obb.8.2013.12.01.16.59.36 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:59:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 18:59:33 -0600 From: Alonzo cuellar To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: speakup, audio solutions Message-ID: <20131202005933.GA8185@redstar> References: <20131127180838.GA17359@redstar> <20131201005215.GD7707@concerto.rednote.net> <20131201120036.GA9288@redstar> <529B980C.1020009@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <529B980C.1020009@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 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: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:59:46 -0000 Yes, XFCE can work for minimal things. However, for those who are sighted and need a magnifier I'm not sure how to get that working. The only way I can think is to run some part of gnome with xfce. Maybe gnome shell. However, I'm not sure how to do that. Another question is... Does anyone know of a console magnifier this way one could have screen access to the console when booting. Alonzo On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 03:11:56PM -0500, Kyle wrote: > One major problem I've had with disabling Pulseaudio on any system whose > sound card only handles a single audio stream is latency with regard to > the ALSA Dmix plugin. I do now have a system that probably runs best > with such a setup, but I have found the latency associated with Dmix to > be quite problematic, and haven't yet found a way to adjust it so that I > can mix multiple audio streams without causing delays when interrupting > speech or enduring a seemingly unresponsive system overall. ALso, I > generally run GNOME with a fallback to the command line, usually in > cases where I intentionally break something in the graphical environment > and need to fix it, which is quite a bit more likely on the old laptop I > would be using to test a setup without Pulseaudio than on my desktop, > which I use for everyday tasks that require a working system, and does > not give me the freedom to break things. I do, however, need access to > both Orca/speech-dispatcher and Speakup/Espeakup on this system, so it > would certainly help to be able to use Dmix or another method of > handling multiple streams at once using Alsa witout Pulseaudio, if it > wasn't for the latency issues I have. If anyone has multiple streams > playing through a sound card that normally only plays a single stream > and at the same time has figured out how to solve the latency problems > with ALSA/Dmix, and if anyone has figured out how to keep Espeak from > chopping words/letters in speech-dispatcher using ALSA directly, please > let me know how to make this setup work correctly. You may certainly > contact me off-list to help me personally with such a setup, but I'm > thinking that many on this list may also be able to benefit as well. > Thanks for any help. > ~Kyle > http://kyle.tk/ > -- > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup