From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 464E11EFD1A; Thu, 26 May 2016 15:25:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-io0-x22a.google.com (mail-io0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22a]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46B881EFD15 for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 15:25:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-io0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id t40so59198611ioi.0 for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:25:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:date:to:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent :mime-version; bh=WlbBnC2oUi7pXDJsrQmunqMuluh2Kj7vscKWK0hHw18=; b=0wMvlMcZn5eXrcqYstKXgvjOqzLN910L/BNnHMroWAoarjUH4cew/NQN87N8r6JaSC vvSlR0gmHDuuzHTtznViFl3InixW3QKf5Dj47vXwcfmqnQZGoXG6TzCfA/3v0Ak1EJQU JBqpp4u7eyBTDtU18fIjKuZ9YHegr+830kgxNmuqvXi5Zx+LergwNaVwpkYTrgEjyyRP ZIEt7xTd0KoOQNlt8p3J8+LH7zdGxP1wUz5VyhUYWfUrNr3EXAv2U6m4Y+l4d5H9Lc4q tP8XYL4AM4g4z1tGObtEXyGOtSLt81xi2WBipX009G8VUfjliVgZDquEwYbD4Rk0yFXk cR+g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:date:to:subject:in-reply-to:message-id :references:user-agent:mime-version; bh=WlbBnC2oUi7pXDJsrQmunqMuluh2Kj7vscKWK0hHw18=; b=L19CvRWrtgFNJeChEMReNNSw+e8f3L8NC8M6lsIHpZuWRcRZ/8v2pyXzqO7LwBMq8t JEyk11EkjsV/4n0+wOw3Q5j0w0Gx5VNuhSxISwo+md7SM+JKm+aj7HJmUSOZr3d666Cr 7H9wkUhrtu4e4cvFdTOyIsEGLEQfTyL1aCUOvUrKAT9tra0XVK6WE62VZkI7+cCJRTYC WwajnXyIViQte03o81/pn830++4zBcdkbtJT+VoU6Z8dK1kxIpb1FaxRkDW1t7+t/zKk z747RURldwQfkP/d8sOb1X+i4BE+YEcXUKWm437HNPsO2tttjQ29Gj2L+Weead79S4BC PvWw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKNmbEe0mGbJuU2hHNp8NVdsVgVEmumdbsEMVto19L0oP7CwxIVBfNFb4HqtuNyDQ== X-Received: by 10.107.178.134 with SMTP id b128mr10227537iof.83.1464290748825; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (173-17-245-161.client.mchsi.com. [173.17.245.161]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j72sm4877187ioj.30.2016.05.26.12.25.47 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 May 2016 12:25:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Peveto X-Google-Original-From: Mark Peveto Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 14:25:47 -0500 (CDT) X-X-Sender: southernprince@purrwurr To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: espeakup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <78e290fd-ac88-1f6b-05e7-57ab429dfed4@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20.12 (DEB 116 2015-12-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list 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, 26 May 2016 19:25:54 -0000 Well, it's sure worth a try. I'll get started. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from vinux using alpine 2.20.10 On Thu, 26 May 2016, 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 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@roxie ~]$ sudo espeakup > > [sudo] password for southernprince: > > [southernprince@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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >