Hi, I raised this question on the gnome-orca list, however it is pretty Ubuntu specific, so I thought I would ask here as well. For those on both mailing lists, please forgive the cross posting.
I would like to use Alsa on my Ubuntu 8.10 installation, firstly because from reading the Orca wiki I see that speech-dispatcher is slightly more responsive with Alsa, and secondly I have a couple of third party apps which require Alsa for sound output. What I wanted to ask was, can PulseAudio and Alsa co-exist on Ubuntu with minimal problems, or do I need to completely remove PulseAudio and recompile any applications and libraries that depend on it to use Alsa instead? Obviously the best solution would be to leave the system as untouched as possible, only having those applications that require low latency access Alsa directly, and anything else less timing critical continue to use PulseAudio, however I am not sure if both systems will play nicely together. A quick Google turned up an article on how to disable PulseAudio in a non-destructive way, but a read through some of the comments suggest this does not come with out some significant side effects. So has anyone managed to get speech-dispatcher working nicely on Ubuntu 8.10 with nice fast responsive speech, but keeping most of the PulseAudio configuration in place, or does PulseAudio really need to go and I reconfigure my system to do things the old way entirely with Alsa? Or as a final thought, would I be better off going with something a little more minimalist like Debian or Gentoo where I can make those sorts of decisions for myself and build my entire environment from scratch with out any PulseAudio at all (obviously not the preferred approach). Any comments or suggestions in relation to this topic would be very much appreciated. Cheers, Mitch -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
