Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pulseaudio
The switch to pulseaudio has made screen readers, on which the blind depend, unintelligible. The recommended workarounds are, in this order: * aptitude remove pulseaudio * touch ~/.pulse_a11y_nostart * Use orca with pulseaudio via speech-dispatcher: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuJaunty The problem appears to revolve around pulseaudio's lack of support for mmap, and libportaudio's dependancy on it: $ LIBASOUND_DEBUG=1 espeak "This is a test." ALSA ERROR hw_params: set (ACCESS) value = MMAP_INTERLEAVED : Invalid argument ... $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 $ apt-cache policy pulseaudio pulseaudio: Installed: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2 ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Ubuntu's switch to pulseaudio broke accessibility for the blind. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416101 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
