On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 08:53:06AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 08/03/16 06:45, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hi Devuan, > > > > I'm following the blinux mailing list, for blind users of > > Linux, and there is a report of someone having trouble with > > pulse audio. So that leads me to ask, will devuan default to > > ALSA in the installer and base installation? I'm also > > curious if ALSA is sufficient for the various screen readers > > and other accessbility software people are using.
Alsa by itself is great for espeakup/espeak. I believe that gnome3 in debian 8 uses speech-dispatcher which seems to in turn use pulseaudio by default, though this can be changed to alsa in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf. Things seem to work fine after making that change and purging pulse, though I haven't tested things in this configuration extensively. I don't know about xfce/mate under devuan, though installing mate on my devuan box is on my to-do list. I would be surprised if I couldn't get rid of pulse there either. > > If pulseaudio is installed, it uses Alsa. Currently we haven't excised > pulseaudio (yet), but there is a possibility we may look to either doing > that or at least maintaining a coherent option for using alsa instead. That gets a huge yes vote from me! > With regards to whether the accessibility software (or any audio > producing or consuming software for that matter) uses alsa is largely a > matter of whether that support is compiled in by default these days. I concur. Greg > > > -- > Daniel Reurich > Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. > 021 797 722 > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
