Re: [orca-list] No sound with GUI under Debian stable (MATE) under VBox 5.27+

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello,

Le 28/02/2018 à 10:35, Alex ARNAUD a écrit :
> Le 27/02/2018 à 23:27, James a écrit :
> > I have  tried to ensure that Orca is running and according to the Debian manual,  if installed with 
> > Speakup, Orca should start when the GUI loads. Are there different sound drivers for the CLI and GUI?
>
> No, it's a conflict between speakup and Orca. You should disable speakup at startup to avoid this issue.

Could you elaborate a bit why this conflict, for instance with which audio backends?

This works here (TM):
espeakup runs (started by root before login), relying on espeak which uses portaudio
orca is started at the user level by ~/.config/autostart/startorca.desktop in graphical environments, relying 
on speech-dispatcher that uses alsa as audio method
If used, lightdm  speaks with orca
If used, gdm2 speaks with orca
Users can switch between console mode and graphical mode with speech in both environments 

What are the differences?

Cheers, Didier