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

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.  You along with others really really really need to go read up on pulseaudio.
Start by typing pulseaudio on google.  Then, spend a while reading so you don't make me and you look so 
stupid.
Just so you don't bitch about me not answering your question:

apt-get install esound

          Kenny

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:54:22PM +0200, 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?
>
> > > Can't we at least change the configuration of the output modules from  
> > > "alsa" to "pulse"
> >
> > Yes, I could do that.
>  
> When I tried to set this manually it didn't work.
>
> > > and start a Pulse Audio daemon under the speech-dispatcher user from  
> > > /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher?
> >
> > No, we can not. PulseAudio will never run system wide, or even specifically for another daemon user by 
> > default, particularly at this late stage. There is just over a week till hardy is released, I'm pushing 
> > it as it is. 
>  
> When I tried to install it under Gutsy, it ran system wide, but this 
> deactivated my sound devices completely. If I've understood the 
> documentation on the Pulseaudio site, it is possible to run PA system wide, 
> but they don't recommend it for security reasons (there are some lacks in 
> some modules, allowing attacks).
> Hermann
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