I've got the restorespeech script handy. On 5/5/2011 04:45, Alex Midence wrote:
My greetings of the morning, Arch Linux folks: =) Reading this thread put me to thinking: We've been using Pulse Audio in Vinux since mid 2010. Bill Cox worked out a way to get it to behave and either he or Tony (not sure who) wrote a very nice script which you all may find rather handy. It's called restorespeech. It will undoubtedly require some modification to fit in with how Arch does things but, I'll scare up my copy when I get home tonight and e-mail to the list in hopes it helps someone. What it does is modify your Pulse Audio setup such that Speakup, Orca and Yasr behave like good little programs and stop being bashful and talk without any of that nasty latency and crackle Pulse is infamous for. It'll set pulse up for you, rebuild speakup from source, I think, install and configure speech dispatcher, orca and yasr for you. It's designed to get your pc talking with just one command or even a hotkey since it's also bound to control alt shift r in Gnome. Very handy for when updates break accessibility and you lose speech for some reason or other and you are dead in the water because of it since, as you all well know, you don't always have a nice sighted pal within shouting distance to lend a hand. Like I said, it will probably require some modification and adaptation to conform with how Arch Linux does things and, you may not need all of its functionality but it may be something you find useful. If you can't wait and want to get your hands on it, google the vinux project's PPA and see if you can't download it by downloading the Vinuxscripts package and rooting around in there till you find it. hth, Alex M On 5/4/11, Christian<christian08 runbox com> wrote: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 -- Vinux Publicity Coordinator: http://www.vinuxproject.org/ Registered Linux user number 508465: http://counter.li.org/ My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change alightbulb? http://goo.gl/eO4PJVinux is Linux done right: http://www.vinuxproject.org/ "Every day is Halloween" Type O Negative 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 andpyatspi2as 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 startagainby 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 3butI would think that wouldn't be necessary anymore since gnome3 is now the current default. Any help?_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org<mailto:orca-list gnome org> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visithttp://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual isathttp://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.htmlThe FAQ is athttp://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines areathttp://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelinesLog bugs and feature requests athttp://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help athttp://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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