Re: [orca-list] problem with Alsa

["Aruni Sharma" <libranarsh gmail com>]

Hi, some of the list members talked about the latest fc 10 accessible install.
Thanks,
Aruni.

On 11/21/08, Vítor Oliveira <vitoroliveira2008 gmail com> wrote:
> 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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