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

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Cox
I'm trying to build a Vinux (blind-user Linux distro) release based on Ubuntu/Lucid. There's too much code to rewrite to have everything working the right way with pulseaudio by May, so I want to release Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid with the system-wide hack. I've enabled PA to start in system wide mode

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

2010-01-04 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 11:02 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: I'm trying to build a Vinux (blind-user Linux distro) release based on Ubuntu/Lucid. There's too much code to rewrite to have everything working the right way with pulseaudio by May, so I want to release Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid with the

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

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Cox
Yes, it's running as user 'pulse' like this: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log-target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=1 Bill On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 11:02 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: I'm trying to build

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

2010-01-04 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
ma, 2010-01-04 kello 11:02 -0500, Bill Cox kirjoitti: I'm trying to build a Vinux (blind-user Linux distro) release based on Ubuntu/Lucid. There's too much code to rewrite to have everything working the right way with pulseaudio by May, so I want to release Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid with the

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

2010-01-04 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 04/01/10 16:27 did gyre and gimble: I wonder if the audio device permission rewriting should be disabled somehow before the system-wide daemon works properly. The current symptoms don't sound like you've hit this issue yet, but I would think that the

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

2010-01-04 Thread Daniel Chen
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Bill Cox waywardg...@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

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

2010-01-04 Thread 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

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

2010-01-04 Thread Colin Guthrie
'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 waywardg...@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

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

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Cox
Ok! I've got both critical speech applications working great! Speakup reads all my consoles, and Orca reads Gnome apps. I removed gdm, and I log directly into a console, and when I type startx, I get a gnome desktop. I can't even tell you how excited I am to have speech finally working great in