No problem with sound on our build. Everything is working great! We have
worked around the pulse audio problem. I can get you everything we have
done to get it working. We also overclocked the pi.


 On 07/08/2014 04:48 PM, Mike Ray wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> I have had desktop working for some time but tts is still flaky because
> of the sound-driver issues.
>
> I am working on some code which will convert espeak to render audio
> directly on the GPU and stabilize things and prevent kernel oops
> crashes.  I have not taken desktop development any further until this is
> fixed because flaky tts with either alsa or speech-dispatcher using
> pulse will bring the thing crashing into a heap.
>
> It just isn't stable using the Broadcom sound driver.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 08/07/2014 19:54, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
>> Thanks Charles,
>>
>> Yes I've been busy to say the least. One thing that is exciting is that
>> we now have an accessible image for the raspberry pi using the Mate
>> desktop based off of
>> Arch. I know Mike has een working on something like this for a while so
>> if he wants to compare notes we can let him know what we did to get it
>> running. We should have this image up for download on the Sonar website
>> next week. Also the final release of Sonar should be out next week.
>>
>>
>>      On 07/08/2014 02:06 PM, Mike Ray wrote:
>>> Like I said...my mistake.  I was possibly not paying enough attention to
>>> every minute of a two hour show.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/07/2014 18:13, Charles Thayer wrote:
>>>> The comment that seems to have started all of this was an off-hand remark 
>>>> to the effect that Orca is "something that Jonathan Nadeau has been 
>>>> working on."  I think the comment referred to the fundraising effort that 
>>>> Jonathan conducted at the beginning of the year to pay for some developer 
>>>> hours needed for bug fixes and features.
>>>>
>>>> Ahuka made this comment in the middle of a segment about the recent 
>>>> comments about Jon Kulp's episode on Blather.  Since I believe that he 
>>>> contributed to the IndieGoGo campaign, I'm pretty sure that Ahuka did not 
>>>> mean to imply that Jonathan was the project lead or the inventor of Orca.  
>>>> I think he was indicating that we have a community member with an active 
>>>> interest in that project, not that Jonathan has taken the reins for Orca.  
>>>> I think Jonathan has enough to do to get Sonar rebased on Manjaro, and in 
>>>> moving the new Sonar GNU/Linux beta version into production.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do see how someone might possibly make the inference that Ahuka was 
>>>> making that kind of suggestion.  I didn't hear it on the first try myself, 
>>>> because I was familiar with the project, with Ahuka's history of 
>>>> contributions and statements, and (to a small degree) with Jonathan's 
>>>> efforts in promoting accessible computing.
>>>>
>>>> It didn't hurt that we set the record straight here, so thanks to everyone 
>>>> who has commented.
>>>>
>>>> Don't worry, Jonathan.  I won't be sending Orca bug reports to you.  
>>>> There's a perfectly good bug tracker on the project site for all of us to 
>>>> contribute our bug reports and patches to help push the development work 
>>>> forward.  :-)
>>>>
>>>> Charles in NJ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>>  From: Jonathan Nadeau <[email protected]>
>>>> To: Mike Ray <[email protected]>; [email protected] 
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 9:08 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Hpr] Orca
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> sorry I haven't listened to that episode yet.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/08/2014 09:06 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
>>>>> Jonathan, I was just responding to a comment in the community news
>>>>> podcast for June.  I think I may have misunderstood the remark but it
>>>>> sounded like somebody was mistaken in thinking you wrote Orca.  That's 
>>>>> all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08/07/2014 13:55, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
>>>>>> Who in the world said i wrote Orca? I don't even know why this was
>>>>>> nessecery to write. I didn't see any post recently that said I wrote
>>>>>> Orca. What is the point of this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   On 07/08/2014 01:26 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
>>>>>>> Just a quick heads-up...Jonathan Nadau didn't write Orca.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28assistive_technology%29
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Currently the project is led by Joan-Marie Diggs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not another person who is in the habit of using the adjectives 'alpha'
>>>>>>> and 'stable' in the same sentence.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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