Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 08:53:06AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote: > > On 08/03/16 06:45, Joel Roth wrote: > > > Hi Devuan, > > > > > > I'm following the blinux mailing list, for blind users of > > > Linux, and there is a report of someone having trouble with > > > pulse audio. So that leads me to ask, will devuan default to > > > ALSA in the installer and base installation? I'm also > > > curious if ALSA is sufficient for the various screen readers > > > and other accessbility software people are using. > > Alsa by itself is great for espeakup/espeak. I believe that gnome3 in > debian 8 uses speech-dispatcher which seems to in turn use > pulseaudio by default, though this can be changed to alsa in > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf. Things seem to work fine after > making that change and purging pulse, though I haven't tested things > in this configuration extensively. I don't know about xfce/mate under > devuan, though installing mate on my devuan box is on my to-do list. I > would be surprised if I couldn't get rid of pulse there either.
> > If pulseaudio is installed, it uses Alsa. Currently we haven't excised > > pulseaudio (yet), but there is a possibility we may look to either doing > > that or at least maintaining a coherent option for using alsa instead. > > That gets a huge yes vote from me! I agree. As we are supporting choice of init subsystems, it is nice with audio, too, if we can offer users a base system that does not force a commitment to a layer above ALSA (PA) that grabs exclusive use of the audio device. I believe there are some clever configuration where PA gets only a virtual audio device for handling desktoppy things, leaving, ALSA and friends still accessible. Not sure whether that could be supported as a choice among several system audio profiles; it would be a secondary goal. > > With regards to whether the accessibility software (or any audio > > producing or consuming software for that matter) uses alsa is largely a > > matter of whether that support is compiled in by default these days. That's good to hear. So supporting accessibility during install may be in reach. cheers, Joel > Greg > > > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Reurich > > Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. > > 021 797 722 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your > contacts. > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
