Re: [orca-list] problem with Alsa

["Aruni Sharma" <libranarsh gmail com>]

Hi, some of the list members talked about the latest fc 10 accessible install.
Thanks,
Aruni.

On 11/21/08, Vítor Oliveira <vitoroliveira2008 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi: Wel, as wel as I know, I cannot see any reason to use pulse in
> hardy, once alsa supports multi-chanel as wel as in windows.
> It sould be very good if we could do the same in intrepid.
>
> Em 20-11-2008 16:48, Aruni Sharma escreveu:
>> Hi, removing pulse and using alsa was comparitively easier in hardy.
>> it's not that simple in intrepid. However, after googling quite a bit
>> I found many tutorials which were very helpful and I have been able to
>> use alsa successfully. please note that removing pulseaudio through
>> apt-get remove command can damage the setup irreparably.
>> Thanks,
>> Aruni.
>>
>> On 11/20/08, Farhan<i am farhan gmail com>  wrote:
>>> 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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