Re: [orca-list] My Fedora 22 Blues

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

I appreciate all the thoughts conveyed to my problem. But, I think
what's actually happening on my system has become muddled in the
process.

I have no problem with Speakup, or with moving among the 23 open
consoles I have running Speakup.

The problem is Orca and Speech-Dispatcher -- or something in the GUI.
Once I leave tty1 where the GUI is, I can run Speakup all day, changing
consoles as much as I might want. But, when I return to tty 1, there's
no response whatsoever. Orca doesn't speak, and as far as I can tell,
nothing else is responding in any way.

For instance, I cannot do:

Alt F2

aplay ~/myfile.wav

Not even if I add something like "-D plughw:4" to the above command.
Yes, I have multiple audio devices.

Which leads me to a thought. I suppose I should try putting
Speech-Dispatcher on a completely separate device. I haven't need that
since using my ICE17724 device, but I suppose this would be worth a try.

Janina

kendell clark writes:
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> hi
> I seriously doubt fedora would do anything like that deliberately. If
> they had, there would be a change log entry. Pulse is a problem for
> speakup, no doubt about it, but otherwise usually just works. This is
> really a speakup problem and needs to be fixed by the speakup devs,
> because pulse audio isn't going away. Now that I've said all that, I
> don't know  how to solve the problem reliably. If you can get into the
> gui, make sure speakup is running, and then run sudo espeakup, while
> in the gui. After that, speakup should work as normal. It's something
> to do with pulseaudio and speakup conflicting with each other. Just as
> an aside, speech-dispatcher's alsa support really leaves something to
> be desired. It frequently crashes when using espeak
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
>
>
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> > I have pulse disabled the usual way I've been disabling it ever
> > since Redhat foisted pulse on us.
> >
> > /usr/bin/pulseaudio is a 0-byte file chmod 444 owned by root:root.
> >
> > Speech-Dispatcher has been told to use alsa.
> >
> > PS: I actually suspect something explicitly Fedora. I'm suspicious 
> > there's some new setting designed to keep newbies locked onto the
> > gui, lest they stray into console land and freak out. That kind of
> > quote unquote feature wouldn't surprise me. I guess I should troll
> > the change log.
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > Jason White writes:
> > > covici ccs covici com <covici ccs covici com> wrote:
> > > > I bet it has something to do with pulse audio -- do you have a
> > > > hardware synth to use with speakup to check?
> > >
> > > It's also worth noting that I can't reproduce any of these issues
> > > under Arch Linux with Pulseaudio, GNOME and Orca installed. It's
> > > something Fedora-specific, apparently.
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing
> > > list orca-list gnome org 
> > > https://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
> > > 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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