Control: tags -1 - moreinfo Control: reassign -1 espeakup 1:0.80-5 Control: retitle -1 espeakup is incompatible with default pulseaudio configuration
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Luke Yelavich <them...@themuso.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:39:35PM AEST, Mika Hanhijärvi wrote: > > I am using the Gnome desktop. > > I have espeakup and Orca installed. I would like to use espeakup on > console and > > Orca on desktop. I also would like to be able to switch between text mode > > console and graphical nome desktop without logging out from the desktop. > > ESpeakup is running as root, and everything is running as a user. I think > the > easiest solution here is to configure Pulse to run system-wide. I know > there > is an option in one of the Pulse configuration files to enable this, but I > don't think Debian ships a startup script or systemd service file to use > PulseAudio in system mode. Happy to be corrected. > If that is so, then espeakup is incompatible with a default pulseaudio configuration. Maybe this should be documented somewhere. On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Scott Leggett <sc...@sl.id.au> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been able to reproduce this bug. A not-very-helpful workaround is > to restart espeakup whenever sound goes missing. > > I've dug into the issue a bit and found it discussed on > pulseaudio-discuss back in 2010. The discussion on the thread seems to > indicate that espeakup and pulseaudio couldn't coexist at the time due > to espeakup not being multi-seat aware. Lennart summarised what needs to > be done to get them working together[0]. > > I'm not sure what the situation is now. Looking briefly at espeakup > upstream [1], it doesn't seem to be very active, so maybe the situation is > the same? > > [0] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/20 > 10-January/006033.html > [1] https://github.com/williamh/espeakup I'm reassigning this bug to espeakup because it should really be modified to work as non-root as Lennart suggested. AFAICT, the only reasong for running as root is to access the softsynth device, but that could be managed via regular uaccess and group mechanism like /dev/snd/* does. We shouldn't require running pulseaudio as root, as it would be better if espeakup would run unprivileged. I'll leave it to the espeakup maintainers to adjust severity. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
