Re: [orca-list] Gnome3, Orca and ArchLinux

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
Is it absolutely necessary to use pulseaudio in Arch with gnome3? If so I may stick with what I have already. It's nice to be able to play audio games in wine without having the lag introduced by pulse.
thanks
Storm

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On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 18:02 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> If all speech output on your system was affected then it sounds like it 
> might be another pulseaudio issue. I have been able to get a reasonably 
> satisfactory set up now on my laptop which uses pulseaudio (thank you 
> Halim), although I still feel pulseaudio is over complicating things.
>
> Halim posted a example default.pa to the list, put that somewhere 
> pulseaudio will find it (I put it in /etc/pulse/default.pa, although be 
> aware that is system wide and user settings may override it, a problem I 
> hit). Now archlinux also provides a asound.conf file to configure alsa 
> applications to use pulseaudio's emulation, comment out the content of 
> this file as we want alsa applications to access alsa directly. 
> Configure speech-dispatcher to use alsa (NOTE: I have had issues where 
> speech-dispatcher has not worked properly with pulseaudio, if you want 
> to use speech-dispatcher with pulseaudio I would recommend using it 
> through libao). Now restart the system (I recommend restarting as it 
> ensures everything has actually been stopped and reloads configurations.
>
> If you still have issues there is one thing which may be wrong: As I 
> mentioned if you put default.pa in the /etc/pulse directory user 
> settings may override this, I had an issue where my GDM user had the 
> default device pulseaudio would use was the actual hardware and so block 
> the device), in this case check your settings (look at files in 
> ~/.pulse) in any user where sound isn't working properly.
>
> I hope this works, it did for me.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 01/-10/37 20:59, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Hey, I just decided to try and fire up gnome after all the Arch Linux
> > packages updated to gnome 3.  I also pulled out orca-git for now so I
> > could establish a base line by using orca-3.01 from the Arch repo.
> >
> > When I installed Orca package, it also brought in at-spi2 and pyatspi2
> > as dependencies.  But when I do 'startx' gnome starts up but I get no
> > sound at all! I then thought I would tryh to force Orca to start again
> > by running from the run dialog and I got "Welcome to Orca" spoken but
> > nothing after that.  then I discovered that I lost all speech - even
> > on the console.  I had to reboot to get at least, back to a working
> > console.
> >
> > Are there suggestions on what else I need to do to get gnome3 + Orca
> > working properly? I recall directions on the Arch wiki for gnome 3 but
> > I would think that wouldn't be necessary anymore since gnome3 is now
> > the current default.
> >
> > Any help?
> >
>
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