What I suggested allows you still to use an application directly
with alsa. I don't know whether gnome 3 can be made so it does not
use pulseaudio but the archlinux packages sure depend on pulseaudio.
The best I have found is to stop pulseaudio blocking the actual
device and allow you still to use alsa without going through pulse.
Michael Whapples
On 04/05/11 18:18, Storm Dragon wrote:
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
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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