[orca-list] apparent pulseaudio problem with ubuntu 12.04

[Doug Smith <braillefingers gmx com>]

I'm sorry to send this mail to these lists, but it seems that I am the only one being affected by the 
problem.  

Apparently pulseaudio starts in system mode on ubuntu 12.04, and this is causing a show stopper problem for 
me.  When I install the system, the 
machine talks and all is well for the first while, but, turn the power off and let the machine cool off over 
night then restart, and sound has been 
permanently silenced.  I cannot give you any debug files because I don't know how, and on top of that, there 
is no access to the machine when this 
happens.  

What has been done is this: I have had help from sighted people, neither of whom could restart the sound for 
me, but one says the output volume on the 
sound preferences dialog is muted and one says it is not.  My roommate even says the volume is at 100%, and 
that might be right as I might have been 
in the wrong place trying to change the check box on the mute.  This kind of thing is one reason I really do 
not like graphical desktop interfaces at 
all, but, I guess we will have to learn to use them.  I don't relate to a computer in that manner.  Using a 
gui is very unnatural for me.  Well, I 
tried to have two people help me but I couldn't talk gui well enough for this to be successful.  

I don't know if I can provide a good enough description of things, but I can tell you that just leaving the 
machine off for a long time and restarting 
it seems to reproduce it.  If anyone out there, working with you nice new systems is having problems with it, 
maybe you might have a solution.  If 
not, could someone give me step-by-step instructions for converting firefox into a text mode browser by 
stripping out all the gui calls and using 
mplayer to deal with the media? 



Thanks. 



Doug S,mith