Re: [orca-list] problem with Alsa

["Alonzo" <mariachiac aim com>]

Hello Farhan,

Fedora works with Alsa.  All you do is uninstall pulseaudio and Alsa will 
work correctly. You would have to set your sound p references to use Alsa 
though.
the only thing is you will have to install it via telnet. this means you 
would have ot have another computer that had internet. i have Fedora on my 
main computer. i believe someone was making a fedora install with speech, 
but I'm n ot sure if the project is still in process.

alonzo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farhan" <i am farhan gmail com>
To: "Ignasi Cambra" <ignasicambra gmail com>
Cc: "Ignasi Cambra" <icambra indiana edu>; "orca" <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] problem with Alsa


> Hello, when I was trying to use ubuntu 8.04 pulse  frustrated me and my 
> atemps at getting multichannel sound to work with a responsive speech 
> synth.
> This is a sad thing to say, but I think that i'm probably going to be 
> stuck in my windows world for a long time.
> This reason is because ubuntu and opensuse are the only ones that can be 
> installed with out a hardware synth or braille display.
> If I could use Linux or some alternitive operating system besides windows, 
> with a responsive speech synth, i'd be all over that. I am considering a 
> switch to mac.
> sorry for the rambling offtopic post
> On 11/20/2008 at 9:36 Ignasi Cambra said
> As you may know, I am desperately trying to configure speech-dispatcher on 
> Ubuntu 8:10. I was able to make it work through Pulseaudio, but it does 
> have some latency problems. When I run speech-dispatcher as a service, it 
> uses Alsa, and it works very well except all other sounds are gone. I have 
> tried everything you told me here. I think I have Alsa correctly 
> installed. I changed the sounds in preferences/sound to alsa, and I 
> configured speech-dispatcher (for my user account) to use alsa. Doing this 
> didn't help at all. Then I tried uninstalling pulseaudio, which locked me 
> out of my system (at least using gnome). I guess it was trying to play the 
> little sound when you log in and it couldn't, so it told me that my 
> session lasted less than 10 secconds etc... I had to use a console to 
> reinstall pulseaudio, and everything worked just fine. I don't understand 
> why this is happening, if I changed all sound output to alsa. Besides 
> this, on preferences/sessions there is an item for load
> ing pulseaudio modules, but nothing related to alsa. In 
> administration/services there is something about alsa (Alsa-utils) which I 
> activated, but I can't deactivate pulseaudio anywhere. What could I do?
> Thanks!
>
> Ignasi
>
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