Re: [orca-list] The Jupiter console screen reader



Hello,


I've attempted to explain it in an earlier conversation. Jupiter uses espeakup for software synth support the same way speakup does so as far as sound output is concerned there should be no difference.


I'll try to put this gently one more time with as precise steps as I can.


If you wish to use desktop i.e. gnome and mate, run pulseaudio as a part of that desktop, then change your mind and with the desktop still running fire up one of the virtual consoles, start espeakup or jupiter, this is pulseaudio configuration that is working for me.



As a normal user i.e. the one running the pulse audio, create a file

~/.config/pulse/default.pa

with the following content

.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 socket=/tmp/pulse.sock


Now as a root user create a file

/root/.config/pulse/client.conf

you might like to do

cp /etc/pulse/client.conf /root/.config/pulse/client.conf

And make sure this is configured in that file

; default-server = unix:/tmp/pulse.sock


Restart pulseaudio on your desktop by relogging, restarting or doing

pulseaudio -k

pulseaudio -d


And you should be good to go.


Security concerns are there that anyone with ability to gain root privileges can manipulate your sound devices you are using as an user, however if we are tallking security here, anyone with root privileges can kill your pulseaudio instance for that matter and do what they want.


I understand proper fix is to make it so that espeakup is not running as root, possibly speakup and jupiter are not running as root but as your normal user with their respective device permissions controlled by udev so it can access it.


Greetings


Peter






On 10.05.2016 at 01:08 Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:38:00AM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
hi
If I can get this going, I'll package this for sonar and replace speakup
with this, assuming it doesn't have the same problem both of these have,
and that is getting sound through pulse audio as root.
I would honestly investigate this further before just blindly replacing
it... Maybe as an alternative, but not right out replacing, and thats
not really possible anyway, since speakup is part of the mainline kernel,
even if only in staging.

Luke
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