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I've tried the workaround suggested on that page already, and Orca still |
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crashes when sound is enabled. If it helps, I'm running Alsa-Lib 1.0.20-r1 |
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with alsa-oss 1.0.17 (latest of both available in Gentoo's repos). |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: William.Walker@×××.COM [mailto:William.Walker@×××.COM] |
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Sent: August 25, 2009 5:17 PM |
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To: Homuth, James (Gentoo) |
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Cc: orca-list@×××××.org |
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Subject: Re: [orca-list] Confirmation: Orca on Gnome 2.24 crashes when |
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sounds are enabled. |
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I'm not sure Orca could be considered the root cause of the problem here. |
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Orca 2.24 itself does nothing with audio. Instead, there may be some bad |
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interaction between the speech synthesis engine and other audio |
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applications. |
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Unfortunately, Linux audio is a mixed bag of tricks and different |
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distributions appear to develop their own audio recipes. For many of these |
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recipes, mixing audio and speech synthesis is kind of like oil and water -- |
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you can shake really hard, but they will never really mix. |
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So, while I would whole heartedly recommend upgrading to 2.26 or better |
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(Orca has had a lot of work done on it since 2.24), I doubt it will solve |
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any of the audio integration woes. Instead, you will probably need to dig |
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deeper into what Gentoo is doing with audio. |
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You might also see if the guidance under the "How do I get Orca to speak |
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alongside other ALSA applications" question on the following page helps: |
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http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/UsingOrca |
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Will |
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Homuth, James (Gentoo) wrote: |
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> Oh, I understood what you were saying. I was simply pointing out that |
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> pulseaudio was never installed on the system--I made sure of that, so |
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> I know that's not the problem. |
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> |
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> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 19:58 -0300, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I was not clear in my previous message. I had to remove pulse audio |
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>> from my machine. My problems were solved after I remove pulse audio. |
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>> |
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>> |
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>> []S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza |
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>> http://www.informal.com.br |
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>> Msn:vilmar@××××××××××××.br Skype:jvilmar |
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>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jvesouza |
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>> Phone: +55 21-2555-2650 Cel: +55 21-8868-0859 |
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>> |
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>> |
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>> On 08/25/2009 07:29 PM, Homuth, James (Gentoo) wrote: |
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>>> I'm running Alsa over here, as well--Gentoo actually doesn't give |
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>>> preference to one over the other. It all depends on what you put in |
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>>> the package manager's config file as to what it pulls in. |
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>>> |
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>>> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 18:02 -0300, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>>> Hi, |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Gentoo uses pulse audio? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I had problems in my jaunty box but they were solved changing pulse |
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>>>> audio to alsa. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> []S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza |
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>>>> http://www.informal.com.br |
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>>>> Msn:vilmar@××××××××××××.br Skype:jvilmar |
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>>>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jvesouza |
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>>>> Phone: +55 21-2555-2650 Cel: +55 21-8868-0859 |
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>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>>> On 08/25/2009 06:23 PM, Homuth, James (Gentoo) wrote: |
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>>>> |
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>>>>> I've had confirmation now that, upon the enabing of certain sound |
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>>>>> notifications in Gnome 2.24 on Gentoo, Orca will crash. Noteably |
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>>>>> if you enable the option to play a sound when a button is clicked. |
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>>>>> The only way around it that I've been able to find, which |
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>>>>> unfortunately means I have to set up Orca again, is to blow away |
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>>>>> the /home/james/.gconf directory and start it over. Fortunately |
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>>>>> that's not what I'd call a huge problem for me at this stage, and I |
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know what not to enable in future. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> I'm curious, though, to know if this is addressed in a later |
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>>>>> version of Gnome and/or Orca. If yes, it might be worth the |
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>>>>> trouble of upgrading, in spite of the fact Gentoo doesn't list |
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>>>>> 2.26 as stable yet. As said earlier, any feedback or additional |
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>>>>> information on this would be appreciated. I'm CCing the Gentoo |
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>>>>> accessibility list as well, in the event it turns out to be an OS |
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specific problem. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> _______________________________________________ |
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>>>>> Orca-list mailing list |
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>>>>> Orca-list@×××××.org |
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>>>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list |
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>>>>> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. |
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>>>>> The manual is at |
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>>>>> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.ht |
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>>>>> ml The FAQ is at |
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>>>>> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions |
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>>>>> Netiquette Guidelines are at |
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>>>>> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuid |
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>>>>> elines |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> |
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>>> |
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> |
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> _______________________________________________ |
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> Orca-list mailing list |
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> Orca-list@×××××.org |
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> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list |
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> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. |
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> The manual is at |
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> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html |
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> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions |
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> Netiquette Guidelines are at |
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> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelin |
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> es |