[pulseaudio-discuss] Help needed for system-wide pulseaudio for blind users

[Bill Cox]

Wow!  That's a lot of replies!  Thanks, but the first reply was right.
 The problem was 100% my spaceyness, which unfortunately happens a
lot.  I had the system wide speech-dispatcher using alsa, not pulse.
That probably locked the sound card somehow.  When I set it to pulse,
I get sound everywhere.  There are still tons of goobers, but they're
all of the sort I can work out.

Thanks!
Bill

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 04/01/10 16:56 did gyre and gimble:
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Pulseaudio starts, and speech-dispatcher and speechd-up work with it
>>> just fine at boot.  Since this is a distro for the blind, I boot into
>>
>> Err, are you sure that speech* are actually using PA and not ALSA
>> directly? Your description is reminiscent of either a dummy/null sink
>> being used for PA, which normally means another application has
>> exclusive access to ALSA's *hw (or via OSS emulation /dev/dsp).
>
> I think you're right re: the Dummy/null sink thing. I suspect it's just
> that the "pulse" user has no rights to the /dev/snd/* nodes and adding
> that user to the "audio" group will make it work.
>
> Col
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