Re: [orca-list] Vinux 1.3 Released!

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:23:59PM EST, Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> If you are the maintainer of pulseaudio under ubuntu you can perhaps
> make some changes to it:
> Is it possible to start pa through init?

No, even upstream recommends against running PulseAudio system wide, unless you are running it on an 
specialized/embedded device, and Pulse works much better when run as a per user instance, particularly on 
multi-user systems.

> In my opinion you can completely drop pulseaudio package but I think this isn't 
> possible.

No, but as I said, I am going to look at disabling it for accessibility installs.

> It is really interesting to see that most of the distributor
> are using pulseaudio which makes more trouble than using direct alsa.
> Opensuse has allmost the same problems like ubuntu regarding sound configuration.

PulseAudio is still under heavy development. With some developments that are going into PulseAudio now, there 
is a chance it may be usable for low latency speech in the future, however things are still very much a 
moving target, and there are many issues to fix, not the least with the underlying alsa sound drivers. Speech 
is best served with ALSA/dmix currently.

Luke
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