Re: [orca-list] apparent pulseaudio problem with ubuntu 12.04

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

This is Linux not Windows!  You have choices here.  
http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup/ for one of them and emacspeak for 
another.  There's even a debian alpha version  available for download 
which as it installs allows you to make the choice of desktop 
environment or command line environment.  I made the command line choice 
myself because I want to do something else with my machine other than 
have problems with interface environments and write about those problems 
all of the time.  The debian alpha with speech is at 
ftp://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_alpha1/ and once you burn it, 
and boot it and hear the beep type s and then hit enter and you should 
get speech talking.

On Sun, 13 May 2012, Doug Smith wrote:

> 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
>
>
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