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

["Christian" <christian08 runbox com>]

Hi,
My sound has just stopped working here in Arch linux after I installed it, is it because of Pulseaudio?
If so, how to get it back?
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2011-05-04 at 21:18 Michael Whapples wrote:

> 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
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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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