There should be a way to forbid pulseaudio with aptitude I think. Aside from that, there are competitors to gdm3 one of which was mentioned on the orca-list but I can't remember the package name now.
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Germano Carella wrote: > Hi, > > I disabled definitively gdm3, 'cause orca is unable to start. > > I tried all things, all commands I found on internet, but anything appens; > orca is silent. > > Finally, I reinstalled gnome-desktop-environment, uninstalled gdm3 and > purged pulseaudio, 'cause speech-dispatcher works fine with alsa, but with > pulseaudio crashes continuously. > > The problem is that when I upgrade, pulseaudio is installed again. it's a > problem! > > Temporary solution is that I login in text-mode and, when logged, I start x. > There is the only way I found to start gnome session. > > > > jude <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

