Re: [orca-list] Orca is silent after updating Gnome-Speech

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

Hi,
Am Freitag, den 04.04.2008, 16:02 -0400 schrieb Willie Walker:
> "Hi Hermann:
>
> I haven't tried in a while, but the "/usr/bin/aoss" trick should work. 
> There might be a 'sticky' Bonobo thing hanging around that remembered 
> the old GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Espeak.server file.  Try logging 
> out, running 'bonobo-slay', and then logging back in."
Exactly! Restarting the system solved this; perhaps relogging to Gnome
would have done it. But who thinks of this, when you a bit nervous about
resetting the whole speech output.

> "BTW, I've heard that pulseaudio support is helping address the notion of 
> device contention. As a result of this, you might not run into 
> gnome-speech device contention issues when you're using a system that is 
> using pulseaudio.
Which system? I've heard of some instabilities of PulseAudio.
Hermann