RE: Hardy and Alsa
Thanks Kenny for the heads up on PulseAudio! I clearly broke my system by making those changes from the FAQ. I'd edit the FAQ if I knew more. Maybe someone who does, should. So with PulseAudio, am I supposed to be able to get multiple sound channels -- like listening to internet radio and software speech simultaneously? I know I have a multi-channel sound card on this machine. Which media players are compatible with this new-fangled thing? Several years ago, Alsa replaced Oss, and I never completely understood why. I did understand for some apps you had to run Oss emulation. Is Pulse-Audio now a new replacement for Alsa? So where is there user level documentation on PulseAudio? What makes it better? Do I now have to find Alsa emulation for PulseAudio? What else does this break? Would voxin or ttsynth for example still work? Any pointers to reading material would be appreciated. I have this love-hate relationship with Linux, and I think the thing I hate the most is the abundance of out-of-date and downright dangerous documentation. Not to mention the general lack of clear docs. I keep vowing to write some, but I always seem to be behind, and by the time I understand something thoroughly enough to document it, the thing I understand is depricated. I think I'm going to wear a t-shirt that says: Everything I know is now depricated! --Debee -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
system admin
hi list. on the Orca page there are instructions to enable system administration on hardy with Orca as follows: "SYS ADMIN: 1) Create root's ~/.orbitrc file (/root/.orbitrc, with and owner.group of root.root with a mode of 644 on my system): ORBIIOPIPv4=1 ORBIIOPUNIX=0 2) Edit /etc/sudoers to add the following line after the line with "env_reset" in it: Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES" Everything else seems to have been taken care of by Luke and Ubuntu (thanks Luke!), at least for my decrepit Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop. " can anyone of you help me by rewriting this in a clear step by step instructions? I don't know how to create a file yet, and I forgot how to edit a file as root. thanks. Mohammed Al-shar'-- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Speech-dispatcher update
As far as I can tell, you should simply have to set
RUN_SPEECHD=yes
ind /etc/default/speech-dispatcher.
The init scriptp of speech-dispatcher should take care of setting up
the necessary directory in /var/run.
Best regards, Lukas
Storm Dragon writes ("Speech-dispatcher update"):
> Hi,
> If you try the fix I wrote about last night, there is one problem. I
> turned on the computer this morning and the /var/run/speech-dispatcher
> folder was missing. I had no speech. Fortunately, I had memorized the
> Orca preferences enough to be able to switch back to Gnome speech
> services. I had to recreate the /var/run/speech-dispatcher and change
> the permissions back to 777 and it worked again. So, if you used my
> workaround, be sure to switch back to gnome speech services before
> shutting down. I logged out and back in with no problems last night, it
> only happened when I completely shut the system down.
> Storm
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Speech-dispatcher update
Hi, If you try the fix I wrote about last night, there is one problem. I turned on the computer this morning and the /var/run/speech-dispatcher folder was missing. I had no speech. Fortunately, I had memorized the Orca preferences enough to be able to switch back to Gnome speech services. I had to recreate the /var/run/speech-dispatcher and change the permissions back to 777 and it worked again. So, if you used my workaround, be sure to switch back to gnome speech services before shutting down. I logged out and back in with no problems last night, it only happened when I completely shut the system down. Storm -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
