Re: [orca-list] Orca, gnome-speech and pulseaudio

["Nolan Darilek" <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Thirded. :)

Here's a thought. What about adding the initial user created on 
accessibility installs to the pulse-rt group? That gave me enough of a 
latency boost that it might actually be enough to win over a few more 
folks to keeping it. Actually, is there some reason this isn't done in 
all desktop installs? In the typical Ubuntu use case, I'm guessing the 
desktop user would appreciate the extra latency cut offered by realtime 
scheduling.


On 02/25/2009 07:18 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Luke
> Please do not do this, or make it optional. I like to have Pulse 
> present, and I find it useful in many ways especially when the 
> hardware driver doesn't do proper samplerate conversion, introducing 
> clicks and pops and other artifacts into the audio. In fact, there are 
> certain sound setups that will barely work until Pulse is installed, 
> quirky cards based on the ICH drivers (intel8x0). In these situations, 
> pulse is the only thing that keeps the system useable. Let's work 
> *with* it, instead of just ditching it ok? I'm really concerned with 
> the "well it doesn't work, so the heck with it" attitude I'm seeing 
> everywhere in the blind community. Let's not add to it in Ubuntu as 
> well, and let's not create situations where certain sound setups are 
> completely unuseable.
> I'd be in full support of an easy way to enable or disable pulse, 
> perhaps with a boot-up menu option, and have that preference carry 
> over to the installed system. Let's have the best of both worlds, 
> those who need or want pulse can have it, those who do not want it can 
> ditch it, and without any extra steps.
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 20:09, Luke Yelavich wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:55:46AM EST, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> > > This message will probably be the reverse of other questions I have 
> > > seen
> > > on this list regarding pulseaudio.
> > >
> > > I am running Ubuntu Jaunty with all the latest updates as of the 
> > > posting
> > > of this message. For the last day or so, Orca using gnome-speech is
> > > bypassing pulseaudio. This causes the speech to be slightly more
> > > responsive, but at the expense of no longer being able to listen to 
> > > music
> > > or youtube videos while doing other things.
> >
> > I'll look into this. I would probably suggest you disable/remove 
> > pulseaudio if you really don't need it, since gnome-speech + espeak 
> > will now use alsa. I am probably going to do this for default 
> > accessibility installs for Ubuntu jaunty anyway, but nevertheless, 
> > I'll see whats going on here.
> >
> > Luke
> > _______________________________________________
> > Orca-list mailing list
> > Orca-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca
>
>    The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a 
> thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot 
> possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to 
> get at or repair.
>     --Douglas Adams
>
> _______________________________________________
> Orca-list mailing list
> Orca-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca