Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install

2020-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I am pretty sure I got all of this figured out and it will likely need a new install. First install fenrir-screenreader not espeak. Next install espeak-ng and speech-dispatcher and gnome. Once that's done get fenrir working then run spd-conf and take espeak-ng and pulse for choices and do the test

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install

2020-01-06 Thread Justin Capella via arch-general
There is a distro that aims to do this, https://talkingarch.tk/ On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 9:56 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > I commented some lines out in /etc/pulse/client.conf and > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. Next thing to try is install speech-dispatcher > and festival and voices for festival and see if

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install

2020-01-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:10:24 +, mar77i via arch-general wrote: >On Monday, January 6, 2020 6:55 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> [...] >> I read about a nopulse package on the arch bbs site in messages but >> couldn't find that on aur so decided to do some edits on the pulse >> configuration files.

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install

2020-01-06 Thread mar77i via arch-general
On Monday, January 6, 2020 6:55 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > [...] > I read about a nopulse package on the arch bbs site in messages but > couldn't find that on aur so decided to do some edits on the pulse > configuration files. > [...] I used to use `apulse`, a minimal layer that worked at least t

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install

2020-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I commented some lines out in /etc/pulse/client.conf and /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. Next thing to try is install speech-dispatcher and festival and voices for festival and see if I can get spd-say talking. If so, that will mean the edits on those pulse files were adequate and then gnome and orca theo

Re: [arch-general] Zstandard for local user build packages - Was: [arch-announce] Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

2020-01-06 Thread Geo Kozey via arch-general
> > From: Morten Linderud via arch-general > Sent: Sat Jan 04 23:46:26 CET 2020 > To: > Cc: Morten Linderud > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Zstandard for local user build packages - Was: > [arch-announce] Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compr

Re: [arch-general] Finding virtual dependencies

2020-01-06 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 1/6/20 10:01 AM, Lone_Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > > Often when packages are removed from repos they become virtual provides. > > While those are great for a transition period , they are not meant to be > used forever. > > > Unfortunately they do stay around for a very long time. > > > example :

[arch-general] Finding virtual dependencies

2020-01-06 Thread Lone_Wolf
Hi, Often when packages are removed from repos they become virtual provides. While those are great for a transition period , they are not meant to be used forever. Unfortunately they do stay around for a very long time. example : Around mesa 10.3.0-1 from august 2014[1]  ati-dri, intel-d

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux

2020-01-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi Brent, it's unlikely a ticking time bomb for me, while building "pro-"audio related packages from AUR as well as my own packages. However, I agree that empty dummy packages might inherit risks. Since Jude run into an "averaged desktop audio" pulseaudio related issues, it indeed might be the be

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux

2020-01-06 Thread brent s.
On 1/6/20 04:05, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 02:45:53 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> I install gnome which has orca in it. The pulseaudio package installs >> along with all of its core gnome dependencies > > Hi, > > I don't know if this helps or might break Orca aud

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux

2020-01-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
PS: AFAIK nowadays it's possible to disable or enable pulseaudio on demand without issues. It was a PITA in the early days.

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux

2020-01-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 02:45:53 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: >I install gnome which has orca in it. The pulseaudio package installs >along with all of its core gnome dependencies Hi, I don't know if this helps or might break Orca audio for GNOME. For completely other reasons I'm using an empty dummy