Re: portaudio2/device busy?
Nigel Henry wrote:
I assume that you had installed pulseaudio at some time or other, to try it
Yes, I installed it myself. Since when I was fighting to set up my
audio, at a point I red that I need a sound server. So I installed it
and the sound was working on my linux box.
Installing the sysv-rc-conf package could help. run it as root on the command
line, and you can disable pulseaudio (for example), which saves having to
kill it, each time you boot up.
After I killed pulseaudio:
However, 'espeak' was working, I got the message that "can not connect
to pulseaudio".
So last night I thought I do not need pulseaudio, so I simply removed
it. Rebooted.
But now still everything complains that "can not connect to pulseaudio"
and no sound at all.
I tried to google and find a site where I can understand the sound
architecture of Linux (not ALSA - but the whole picture), but I could
not find anything.
So I do not know now how to proceed. Can you suggest something to
read/learn?
And also something how to solve the situation:
* having a soundserver (pulseaudio? or should I use esound?) for the
common sound applications
* having espeak to work - w/o a soundserver (wrapping around it to avoid
the server layer)
I have tried aoss - it was working for 'aoss flite -t "test sound"'
(flite needs oss) but not for 'aoss espeak "test sound"'...
Thanks again,
tamas
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