Re: [orca-list] Replacing Pulseaudio with JackD in Ubuntu

[luke <speakup lists tacticus com>]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jason White wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:04:07PM -0500, luke wrote:
>  
> > I don't know if I can use Pulseaudio for the normal sound card, and Jack 
> > for the Delta1010, but I thought it might be easier to just rip out 
> > Pulseaudio all together.
>
> The consensus seems to be to avoid PulseAudio, at least for the time being.
> Why not simply choose not to install it in the first place? Under debian, at
> least, it is entirely optional.

I'm sorry, I'm guessing I didn't say in my original message that I am a 
Ubuntu user.  They have standardized on pulseaudio in their desktop 
version, which happens to be what I am using on my laptop.  Orca is 
running there, with espeak and pulseaudio.
I was contemplating installation of Intrepid desktop on my DAW as well, 
which means that it would be using pulseaudio until I switched back to 
JACK, hopefully doing so with a limited time of no speech.

On my laptop: I would never have chosen to install it, but since it has 
been installed for me, I would like the best way to either work with it 
and still use advansed sound hardware (Delta1010 in my DAW, UCA202 USB 
devices on my laptop), or extract it completely.

There is debate on the ubuntu-devel-discussion list, as to whether running 
JACK should cause PulseAudio to releace the sound cards, and re-connect as 
a JACK client.  That seemed to be undecided from what I was reading, and 
in any event it is not yet implemented.

Regards,

Luke