Re: espeakup

[Mark Peveto <southernprince73@gmail.com>]

What file names do I look for?  I did a fresh install yesterday afternoon, so yeah, I could try.

Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
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On Fri, 27 May 2016, Willem Venter wrote:

> Can you get access to the files on the disk? You might try deleting
> some of the user pulseaudio configs.
>
> On 5/27/16, Mark Peveto <southernprince73@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oh, I'm sure it's good information, friend, I'm just not having much
> > luck.  Think tha'ts more on my end.  I'm not as good at this as I should be.
> >
> > Mark Peveto
> > Registered linux number 600552
> > Sent from sonar using thunderbird.
> >
> > On 05/26/2016 02:11 PM, 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 <southernprince73@gmail.com> 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
> >>>
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> >
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> >
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