On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Delaunay Christophe < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kevin, > > Many thanks for your interest to my problem. Sorry, I may not have > replied as soon as you'd expect. This is because, after reading your > response and others, I tried several things which were suggested to me. > > But, first, here's my problem: > > My PC is quite old. It's a Compaq desktop 5100 with A Pentium II running > at 800 mHz, 512 MB of RAM and an Intel I810 audio chip. > > On this PC, I first installed a fedora 9 which worked like a charm until > recently. > > On the gnome desktop, I launch the "orca" screen reader which I > configured to say screen content through the ESpeak speech synthesizer. > > A month ago, after a yum update, the synth began to drop last syllables > of what it had to say. For instance, "Welcome to Orca" became "Welcome > to Or". > > Yesterday, I upgraded the F9 PC to F10 in order to benefit from many > enhancements of Orca and the gnome desktop from 2.22 top 2.24. > > As a result, I don't hear ESpeak anymore. > > I suspected pulseaudio to be the culprit after doing the following. > > (1) I booted the PC in runlevel 3, (console only). > > (2) I logged onto my account and issued the following command: > > script -c startx > > (3) After awhile, I could hear the login sound and then orca was > launched and brailled "Welcome to orca" but it did not speak. Also the > screen reader continued to braille, it did not say anything. > > (4) I logged out X and then, after the X server was shut down, I was > back to the console. > > (5) In the "typescript" file which was generated by "script", I read > that some actions required me to have increased RT_PRIO or RLIMIT_NICE > capabilities. It was suggested to add my user account to the "pulse-rt" > group. > > (6) I did this by logging as root and entering the command: > > usermod -a -G pulse-rt <my_login> > > Then I logged out from root and back in to my account. > > (7) I started the gnome desktop but to no avail. Of course, I didn't > have the warning I had before but always no speech. > > (8) I then logged in as root and tried to "yum erase pulseaudio". Four > dependent packages were also removed. I wrote down their names in order > to be able to reinstall them all later. > > (9) I then logged out root and logged in back to my account and started > the gnome desktop. This time, I did not hear the login sound but after > awhile, I heard ESpeak saying "Welcome to orc". The synth did not finish > its sentence but it talked. Problem: This is the only sentence I could > hear. Then, orca was totally frozen: no more braille, no more speech, > just as if orca was deadlocked somewhere. > > (10) I reinstalled pusleaudio and its four dependent packages and tried > to start gnome again. This time, I heard the login sound but no speech, > just like in (7). > > (11) I finally tried to modify /etc/asound.conf and to create a > ~/.asoundrc in my home directory, as suggested by Paulo Cavalcanti. This > time, when I started the gnome desktop, I heard the login sound, then > "Welcome to Orc", ESpeak did not finish and Orca was frozen like in (9). > > Now, I realize that my problem may not be due to pulseaudio but what > should I do to have ESpeak work in F10 like it did in F9 please? > > Many thanks in advance. Have a nice day. Chris > I have never used orca before, but it seems to be working fine here with pulseaudio. The difficult part is to make she stop talking ... I also tried espeak, and it is also reading file names via command line. Did you make a clean install or used some kind of upgrade from F9 to F10? -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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