Re: [orca-list] Revamped explanation of problems relating to lack of speech accessability

[covici ccs covici com]

Well, I spoke too soon, pulse was not loading at all, I get the
following error:
Aug  7 19:02:26 ccs pulseaudio[11610]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device=dmix"): initialization
failed.

What can I do about this?

covici ccs covici com wrote:

> Interesting -- at least now, when I start mplayer in my text console,
> pulse does not start and I hear sound.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > If you have only one audio output device you can reconfigure pulse to
> > use alsa's dmix plugin.
> > In that case you can use alsa and pulse mixed.
> >
> > To do this copy default.pa from /etc/pulse to ~/.pulse
> > and add device=dmix
> > to alsa module which should be loaded manualy.
> > load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix
> > Don't forget to comment line
> > load-module module-detect
> >
> > I am using that setup since pulseaudio was integrated in ubuntu and
> > other distros.
> > HTH.
> > Halim
> >
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         covici ccs covici com