Re: [orca-list] Can pulseaudio be made to work with consoles and Orca at the same time?

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi
To do what you wish, you will have to change the configuration in /etc/default/pulseaudio to launch a 
system-wide daemon rather than a per-user session of Pulse. Following that, you will need to add any users 
you wish to be able to communicate with Pulseaudio to the pulse-access group so they will have permission to 
use the audio. It's a simple enough configuration though Ubuntu doesn't use it this way by default due to 
supposed security implications.


On Jan 1, 2010, at 05:07, Bill Cox wrote:

> I'm trying to get a basic Karmic system working with the two critical
> applications for the blind: Orca and speakup.  Pulseaudio is being a
> huge PITA.  Whether I use espeakup or speechd-up, pulseaudio is
> launched as another user as soon as the speakup module starts during
> boot.  However, when the user logs into gnome, another instance of
> pulseaudio is created.  The first one locks the sound card, and the
> second is mute.  Orca wont talk.  If I kill the first one, Orca comes
> up talking, but then my Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6] consoles stop talking.
>
> Any basically usable Linux system for the blind needs Orca and speakup
> working together.  Pulseaudio, SFAIK, only allows one instance to use
> the sound card at a time.  Pulseaudio also requires each user to have
> his own copy.  Speakup runs before any user logs in, and therefore
> must run as it's own user.
>
> Therefore... pulseaudio can't work on any truely accessible Linux box?
> Is this basically true?  If this can be fixed, which peice of code
> needs fixing (I'm willing to fix it)?  Should we try and make multiple
> instances of pulseaudio play nice together so they can share the sound
> card?
>
> Bill
>
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