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

[James <james londonsw15 gmail com>]

Hi all

Just wanted to tahnk you all for your suggestions. I am going to 
experiment and I shall report back with what works. This is frustrating, 
but also extremely good fun. I like to get my digital hands dirty.

I hope to be able to return the kindness shown here one day.

Best wishes

James


On 28/02/2018 16:31, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
> 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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