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 10:39, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Le 28/02/2018 à 11:23, Keith Barrett a écrit :
> > 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?
>
> Sure.
>
> 1) Don't redirect alsa to pulseaudio.
> For that, in case you have in /etc/sound.conf these two lines:
> pcm.default pulse
> ctl.default pulse
> Commment them out, like this:
> #pcm.default pulse
> #ctl.default pulse
>
> 2) Politely ask pulseaudio to share the mixer with its siblings.
> For that, include i /etc/pulse/default.pa these two lines:
> load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix
> load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop
> And comment out conflicting settings, case occurring.
>
> Also, with these settings both alsamixer and pavucontrol can then be used.
I will play with this some more but I still find that once pulse has 
accessed a device, it is no longer available.  This is with debian buster.
Has any one got this to work on debian?

> Greetings
>
> Didier
>
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