Re: [orca-list] pulseaudio frustration

["Scott Rutkowski" <scott7442 scottrut com>]

Hi Peter and all.

I agree with Peter. I have 2 soundcards in 1 pc and I cant change the 
default card for all music sounds speech etc. It's annoying me cause I want 
to simply have 1 card to deal with all sound and the other card seems to be 
detected as the card to use and the  wrong card is being detected by 
default.
If anyone can help us, please let us know.
I know pulse audio is a great system just hard for us new users's and 
inaccessable software to configure it the way you want.
Thanks.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Vágner" <peter v datagate sk>
To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:13 AM
Subject: [orca-list] pulseaudio frustration


> Hello Guys,
> You know pulseaudio is the default system for handling sound in Ubuntu
> hardy. Recently also speech-dispatcher has been configured to use it by
> default. When only 1 sound card is used everything runs smoothly. But I
> have always problems configuring my system so music, movies, systems
> sounds etc goes through primary soundcard and speech output throught the
> second one. Speaking in the alsa terms they are the default and
> default:1 devices.
> Perhaps there is a way to load all the devices manually in the
> /etc/pulse/default.pa file but in ubuntu hardy they are autodetected
> somehow. I can't determine which pulseaudio servers do actually run on
> my system so I cant tweak speech-dispatcher configuration properly.
> To make it even worse I have tryed using various pulseaudio utilities
> e.g. pulseaudio volume control and one more tool which name I cant
> remember. That other tool is supposed to detect all the pulseaudio
> servers on the network but It even fails to start on my machine. Going
> back to pulseaudio volume control I can see this tool is not verry
> accessible and I am afraid such incredible features like redirecting
> streams to diferent output devices, changing the defauld device without
> a reboot is not possible for us using Orca.
> I feel for a blind user having control over a sound equipment is a must.
> Can anyone help me to understand this or at least assist me with the
> configuration I would like to achieve?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
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