Re: [orca-list] Trouble setting up speech-dispatcher with orca

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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With all this muss and fuss over Pulse Audio, can't a system implement
Pulse in whatever way it wants and just run Speech Dispatcher with
ALSA along side of Pulse? Like now, some apps run OSS and others use
ALSA as long as the support is available from the kernel.

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:40:04AM -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
> Hi, Halim.  I recommend that for now, we run PulseAudio as a
> system-wide service in Ubuntu, rather than remove it.  It works very
> well for me in both Karmic and Lucid.  This summer, I plan to help
> make PulseAudio work well the "right" way with speakup, speechd-up,
> and a few other places that traditionally require system-wide mode,
> but as long as we've got critical apps that expect system-wide sound,
> please ignore the recomendations against system-wide mode.
> System-wide mode works much better than removing PulseAudio, IMO.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On So, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:23:56 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > case Arch decides to go with pulse as a default some day. ÂIn which
> > > case, I will construct a speech-dispatcher-git package supporting
> > > this. ÂI just haven't made it a huge priority since I have a SB live
> > > multi channel sound card here.
> >
> > The goal should be not to make pulse as default audio output server!
> > We have already lost ubuntu in this area.
> > Pulseaudio breaks console a11y.
> > Mooving all applications to userland doesn't work in all places and
> > running pulse as a systemservice
> > isn't recomended from it's developers.
> > Console screenreaders need access to several kernel devices which doesn't
> > work in user mode.
> > E. g. /dev/ttyx, /dev/console, /dev/input/*, (/dev/snd/* only if pa is
> > running).
> > @ALL:
> > Please work together with your disributors Âto make pulse an optional
> > and not an hard dependency of the desktop!
> >
> > We will loose texmode consoles if this stuff gets integrated in all
> > distros.
> >
> > Regards
> > Halim
> >
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