Re: [orca-list] problem with Alsa

["Aruni Sharma" <libranarsh gmail com>]

Hi, removing pulse and using alsa was comparitively easier in hardy.
it's not that simple in intrepid. However, after googling quite a bit
I found many tutorials which were very helpful and I have been able to
use alsa successfully. please note that removing pulseaudio through
apt-get remove command can damage the setup irreparably.
Thanks,
Aruni.

On 11/20/08, Farhan <i am farhan gmail com> wrote:
> 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 load
>  ing 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
>
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