Re: [orca-list] Pulseaudio and speech-dispatcher/gnome-speech in Ubuntu.

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Mi 16. Apr 2008 um 12:26:10 schrieb Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>:
> > > I have requested permission to upload a change so that speech-dispatcher doesn't start by default.
> > This is a not a good solution, it showed to be very confusing for the  
> > users in case of both
> > Festival before and now Speech Dispatcher.  A side effect of permitting  
> > Speech Dispatcher
> > in /etc/defaults/ will still be that the rest of the audio is destroyed  
> > if the user is using
> > Pulse Audio. This is even worse, I believe, because now Speech  
> > Dispatcher doesn't start
> > by default and we still have the original problem.
>
> I don't quite understand. The way I see things currently, given that my upload is allowed, is this. The 
> system is installed with gnome-speech. The user wishes to switch to speech-dispatcher, so they install it. 
> Since it is not running at system boot, pulseaudio still functions. They can then go about configuring 
> speech-dispatcher the way they want. If they don't want pulse, they can turn it off. If they do want it, 
> they can configure speech-dispatcher to run as their user, any way they see fit.
 
How can I deactivate Pulseaudio. It isn't started with the system,but with 
the user session, so can you pleas point out, where the start up command is 
stored?

> > Can't we at least change the configuration of the output modules from  
> > "alsa" to "pulse"
>
> Yes, I could do that.
 
When I tried to set this manually it didn't work.

> > and start a Pulse Audio daemon under the speech-dispatcher user from  
> > /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher?
>
> No, we can not. PulseAudio will never run system wide, or even specifically for another daemon user by 
> default, particularly at this late stage. There is just over a week till hardy is released, I'm pushing it 
> as it is. 
 
When I tried to install it under Gutsy, it ran system wide, but this 
deactivated my sound devices completely. If I've understood the 
documentation on the Pulseaudio site, it is possible to run PA system wide, 
but they don't recommend it for security reasons (there are some lacks in 
some modules, allowing attacks).
Hermann