Re: [orca-list] Pulseaudio and speech-dispatcher/gnome-speech in Ubuntu.

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:07:47PM EST, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> I see however a big problem with this setup. Running Speech Dispatcher  
> system wide with ALSA output prevents PulseAudio to start on one channel  
> soundcards. This means, if I'm not mistaken, that installing Speech  
> Dispatcher will effectively destroy all other sound output in Ubuntu  
> Hardy. This seems to be a serious bug and it is important that it is  
> fixed before the release.

I have requested permission to upload a change so that speech-dispatcher doesn't start by default. THis is 
all I can do, but it will prevent the sound device from being held by speech-dispatcher if a user wants 
pulseaudio. This should be no trouble to get in.

Luke