Re: [orca-list] problem with Alsa

[VÃtor Oliveira <vitoroliveira2008 gmail com>]

Hi: Wel, as wel as I know, I cannot see any reason to use pulse in 
hardy, once alsa supports multi-chanel as wel as in windows.
It sould be very good if we could do the same in intrepid.

Em 20-11-2008 16:48, Aruni Sharma escreveu:
> 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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