I have a Debian system that was ALSA only, it works very nicely.
I built it up from a console system custom picking GNOME files individually.
Emacspeak with Voxin under ALSA is wonderful.
David
In distributions other than Vinux, what you describe is extremely difficult to achieve. If it were not for all of the customizations and scripts that Luke created so that this was possible, I don't think you would be saying that. You would have to run pulse in systemwide mode losing much of it's functionality. Also, things just get much more complicated when you have Pulse to deal with. When you have pure alsa, you would not believe how everything just "works "
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On Aug 4, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com> wrote:
> I'm using PulseAudio and Speakup in my consoles and Orca on my GUI, so I'm not sure where this restriction you're referring to comes from.
>
> On 08/04/2013 11:54 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
>> You don't have to have gui free systems to use cli apps in console
>> mode. What does help is if it is free of Pulse Audio. This will let
>> you use Speakup for the console and Orca for the GUI.
>>
>> Alex M
>>
>> On 8/4/2013 5:09 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>> I think galpine exists which is designed to run in graphical mode not in
>>> terminal or console. I have no idea how compatible orca will be with it
>>> since most all email discussions are hostage to thunderbird and
>>> evolution. Aside from that, alpine may have a setting for cursor in its
>>> settings that may help. I don't know that any of orca's karet modes
>>> will even work in terminal mode. If none of that can or will work, the
>>> g.u.i. has its limitations and you may well have just met one of them.
>>> There's always command line if you can get a system specifically
>>> installed for it and keep that system free of g.u.i. contamination.
>>> It's all in how much of a learning curve you're prepared to take on and
>>> how soon.
>>>
>>> On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, RiverWind wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here is an expurgated version of my original message.
>>>>
>>>> Hey There,
>>>>
>>>> For the first time ever, I find that Orca refuses to read most of
>>>> the screens in alpine or several other commandline utilities.
>>>> They have heretofore performed this function for me without any
>>>> trouble what-so-ever. I absolutely can not get orca to allow me
>>>> total freedom in pine or alpine, and I can not figure out how to
>>>> remedy this matter.
>>>>
>>>> I thought that perhaps firing up a console by means of
>>>> "orca+ctrl+space" would allow me to make some sort of palliative
>>>> adjustments; nothing doing. This is because I can not figure out
>>>> how to load speech-dispatcher and get it talking. When ever I
>>>> load a console, orca goes on vacation, AWOL as you might say. I
>>>> am then bereft of speech output. I can log into the console
>>>> readily enough, but I'm dead in the water afterwards.
>>>>
>>>> I would be most sincerely thankful for any help I might be able
>>>> to obtain here. I would be most especially grateful to once more
>>>> be capable of operating in terminal mode as apposed to in a
>>>> console, if possible. I am most dreadfully sorry to address the
>>>> same issue twice in such a short time, but I really haven't any
>>>> choice in the matter. Please bear with me, kind reader, and
>>>> perhaps I'll not be faced with this most odious of necessities in
>>>> the near future at least.
>>>>
>>>> cheerio,
>>>> Riv
>>>>
>>>> My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net
>>>> My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> 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
>>>> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
>>>> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> jude <jdashiel shellworld net>
>>> About to block another web browser version? Ask yourself what Tim
>>> Berners-lee would do.
>>>
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>>> The manual is at
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>>> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>>> 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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>> 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
>> 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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> 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
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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
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp