Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Sink for event sounds? WAS: paplay - sound roles?

2010-01-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Jason Taylor at 03/01/10 00:31 did gyre and gimble: Seriously need this for my usb headset.. it drives me insane trying to get the sounds to the correct output. One thing though I'm not sure it's possible but there needs to be some thing similar for input as well, at the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 07:41 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: Hi, Colin. I disagree that speech-dispatcher and speechd-up are broken and need to be fixed. speechd-up is a root daemon attached to the /dev/softsynth device. I see no utility in having multiple copies of it. Speech-dispatcher opens an IP

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Bill Cox at 03/01/10 12:41 did gyre and gimble: Hi, Colin. I disagree that speech-dispatcher and speechd-up are broken and need to be fixed. speechd-up is a root daemon attached to the /dev/softsynth device. I see no utility in having multiple copies of it.

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 03/01/10 13:26 did gyre and gimble: So, in my simplistic and user-centric point-of-view, I wonder if speechd-up accepts audio INPUTS? Perhaps it could act as a pulseaudio sink, with the appropriate modules, of course. It starts before the user logs in and only

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Bill Cox
Hi, Colin. I like your proposal, but I think I'd like to implement it in two phases. I'd like to skip step 1 for now, and not deal wit CK, but as you say, make speechd-up headless, and write the PA modules you suggest to pipe sound from speechd-up. CK isn't working properly with PA in Ubuntu

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Bill Cox at 03/01/10 16:23 did gyre and gimble: Speechd-up isn't the only root level sound source that's out there. Espeakup is another alternative to speechd-up which is currently much more popular, but limited in that it can only use the espeak voice. From the point of

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, On So, Dez 27, 2009 at 01:34:46 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sat, 26.12.09 08:31, Halim Sahin (halim.sa...@freenet.de) wrote: Lennart I believe in his particular use-case he's concerned about the screenreader prior to the DE starting up (boot messages and the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2010, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 07:41 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: Hi, Colin. I disagree that speech-dispatcher and speechd-up are broken and need to be fixed. speechd-up is a root daemon attached to the /dev/softsynth device. I see no utility in having multiple

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Switching resample_method on the fly?

2010-01-03 Thread Bearcat M.
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 13:42 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 30.12.09 03:07, Bearcat M. Şandor (bear...@feline-soul.com) wrote: Using Pulseaudio 0.9.19 on gentoo amd64 Folks, I like to use resample-method=src-snc-best-quality for music (i upsample to 192k) and

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Bill Cox
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Halim Sahin halim.sa...@freenet.de wrote: Here are my thoughts about pulse: Ok This will  my last post in this thread I can put in a good word for Halim. He's been very helpful in the last several weeks working out issues with Orca and the back end sound

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Bill Cox
I've removed gdm from my Lucid system, after Tony Sales (founder/driver of Vinux) suggested it. I'm already feeling rather attached to my gdm-less system. It now boots into a very nicely talking console login prompt. I just login, do whatever I like on the console, and type 'startx' if I want

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 12:29 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Regardless, this problem for the visually impaired is one that needs to be addressed ASAP before we have a whole battalion of lawyers from the ACLU challenging us all in courts that we don't, by the very nature of linux, have the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:57 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: I've removed gdm from my Lucid system, after Tony Sales (founder/driver of Vinux) suggested it. I'm already feeling rather attached to my gdm-less system. It now boots into a very nicely talking console login prompt. I just login, do

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 03/01/10 17:48 did gyre and gimble: And it seem like a doable, sane approach to the problem. A voice of sanity midst the riot this could become. :) But that still leaves PA's biggest problem for this user: It picks the most obviously wrong choice in

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2010, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 03/01/10 17:48 did gyre and gimble: And it seem like a doable, sane approach to the problem. A voice of sanity midst the riot this could become. :) : But that still leaves PA's biggest problem for this user:

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2010-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 22/12/09 20:49 did gyre and gimble: On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Arun Raghavan wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Coding is

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 03/01/10 21:48 did gyre and gimble: And yesm there are, according to the bus scanning done at bootup, 3 separate audio systems in this machine. 1. There is an intel-hd or whatever its called, claim from my video card that has no connection to the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: 01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value        Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 1001        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17        I/O ports at 9c00 [size=64]        

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2010, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 12:29 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Regardless, this problem for the visually impaired is one that needs to be addressed ASAP before we have a whole battalion of lawyers from the ACLU challenging us all in courts that we don't, by

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2010-01-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 03/01/10 21:56 did gyre and gimble: a pacmd ls is quite verbose, about 17.5k and attached. From the looks of it, it really should be aware of the Audigy2. Indeed it is. The HDMI card is turned off so it shouldn't be getting in your way and the Audigy2 is

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2010, Daniel Chen wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: 01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 1001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:08:07AM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 02/01/10 05:59 did gyre and gimble: So that's how I see it should work. I'm not very confident when speaking about consolekit and boot/login processes, so I have to hope that the system I

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Switching resample_method on the fly?

2010-01-03 Thread Bearcat M. Sandor
Well, after all that i upgraded libsample rate and now it's playing flash just fine even with the best-quality resampler. So cool. Thanks all. ___ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de