Re: [orca-list] problem with Alsa

[Farhan <i am farhan gmail com>]

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 loading 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