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

[Keith Barrett <lists barrettpianos co uk>]

On 28/02/18 10:03, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Le 28/02/2018 à 10:54, Keith Barrett a écrit :
> > On 28/02/18 09:35, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > > 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.
> > Well, that will not really help if you want to use speakup and orca.
> > Another option is to remove pulseaudio but be aware that may cause problems in later versions of firefox so 
> > you need to decide which is most important to you.
>
> Or set speech-dispatcher to rely on alsa instead of pulseaudio, still having firefox using pulseaudio.
>
> This works here.
Really, can you tell me how you did that because I find that it works 
until pulse plays an audio stream in firefox then alsa does not seem to 
be able to access the sound device any more?

> Cheers, Didier
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