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

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Yes, it also works here on several machines.

I'm back to cursing pulse audio. I gave using it a serious try a few
weeks ago. It was an ultimately unsuccessful attempt.

Perhaps I'll try again in a few years.

Janina

Didier Spaier writes:
> 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.
>
> Cheers, Didier
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
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