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

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:54:22PM EST, Hermann wrote:
> am Mi 16. Apr 2008 um 12:26:10 schrieb Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>:
> > > > I have requested permission to upload a change so that speech-dispatcher doesn't start by default.
> > > This is a not a good solution, it showed to be very confusing for the  
> > > users in case of both
> > > Festival before and now Speech Dispatcher.  A side effect of permitting  
> > > Speech Dispatcher
> > > in /etc/defaults/ will still be that the rest of the audio is destroyed  
> > > if the user is using
> > > Pulse Audio. This is even worse, I believe, because now Speech  
> > > Dispatcher doesn't start
> > > by default and we still have the original problem.
> >
> > I don't quite understand. The way I see things currently, given that my upload is allowed, is this. The 
> > system is installed with gnome-speech. The user wishes to switch to speech-dispatcher, so they install 
> > it. Since it is not running at system boot, pulseaudio still functions. They can then go about 
> > configuring speech-dispatcher the way they want. If they don't want pulse, they can turn it off. If they 
> > do want it, they can configure speech-dispatcher to run as their user, any way they see fit.
>  
> How can I deactivate Pulseaudio. It isn't started with the system,but with 
> the user session, so can you pleas point out, where the start up command is 
> stored?

To de-activate pulseaudio, do the following:
1. Go to the system menu, Preferences, then choose sound.
2. Go to the sounds page, and uncheck the first check box you come to, "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)"

Hope this helps.

Luke
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