Re: [orca-list] orca, pidgin and Jaunty

[Paul Hunt <huntp ukonline co uk>]

You could disable sounds altogether in Pidgin. According to some posts 
on the ubuntu-accessibility list last month this stops the crashes.

Not an ideal solution but as Orca can announce contacts signing in and 
sending messages etc in Jaunty the sounds aren't strictly necessary.

Paul

On 11/05/09 18:13, guy Schlosser wrote:
> Hey there Paul, and thanks for the quick reply. Yes I have disabled 
> pulseaudio, and it definitely is an audio problem with Pidgin. 
> Switching the method to alsa didn't help though. Every time a 
> notification comes up that plays a sound, Pidgin crashes. Thanks for 
> the suggestion though, and reassuring me that the problem is not some 
> weirdness going on with Orca, Pidgin and the new notification system.
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
> Guy
>
>
> On 05/11/2009 12:35 PM, Paul Hunt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think this is an audio problem. Did you disable pulseaudio? Most 
> > people seem to have done so in Jaunty (myself not included). It might 
> > be that Pidgin is trying to play an alert through pulse but can't. 
> > You might try changing the sound output method to ALSA in the sounds 
> > page of the Pidgin preferences dialogue.
> >
> > Orca can handle notifications, including Pidgin's, perfectly fine in 
> > Jaunty.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 11/05/09 17:17, guy Schlosser wrote:
> > > Hey all, I have a question regarding orca and pidgin, with Jaunty. 
> > > Every time I get an IM, or a notification that someone has signed in 
> > > or out, Pidgin seems to crash. What I'm trying to figure out, is if 
> > > it actually crashed, or if there is something I need to do with orca 
> > > to interface with the new notification system in Jaunty. Has anyone 
> > > else seen this problem? I'm running a 32-bit Ubuntu system with orca 
> > > 2.26.0. If I wanted to go to orca 2.26.1, how would I do that with 
> > > git? I tried on another system, and even though I issued the git 
> > > checkout command, orca reports that it is 2.27.2 pre. Any help or 
> > > advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Guy
> > >
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