I'm trying to get a basic Karmic system working with the two critical applications for the blind: Orca and speakup. Pulseaudio is being a huge PITA. Whether I use espeakup or speechd-up, pulseaudio is launched as another user as soon as the speakup module starts during boot. However, when the user logs into gnome, another instance of pulseaudio is created. The first one locks the sound card, and the second is mute. Orca wont talk. If I kill the first one, Orca comes up talking, but then my Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6] consoles stop talking.
Any basically usable Linux system for the blind needs Orca and speakup working together. Pulseaudio, SFAIK, only allows one instance to use the sound card at a time. Pulseaudio also requires each user to have his own copy. Speakup runs before any user logs in, and therefore must run as it's own user. Therefore... pulseaudio can't work on any truely accessible Linux box? Is this basically true? If this can be fixed, which peice of code needs fixing (I'm willing to fix it)? Should we try and make multiple instances of pulseaudio play nice together so they can share the sound card? Bill -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
