RE: [orca] Re: OT: Re: Pipewire orca and speakup
Hi Samuel
I am happy to do some testing if there is a fix for this. But at the moment,
my Debian 13.1 system is working ok, after having carried out Chevelle's
workaround. So I am not sure what I can test.
Regards
Stuart Foster
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From: orca-bounce@freelists.org <orca-bounce@freelists.org> On Behalf Of
Samuel Thibault
Sent: 28 September 2025 00:03
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Subject: [orca] Re: OT: Re: Pipewire orca and speakup
Hello,
Stuart Foster, le ven. 26 sept. 2025 00:28:25 +0100, a ecrit:
> I have now re-installed Debian 13 as a clean install, installed
pulseaudio, then purged it. This makes speakup work.
More precisely, it is removing the pipewire-alsa package that makes this
work, installing pulseaudio and removing it has mostly the effect of
removing the pipewire-alsa since the two are in conflict.
This is not a new issue, the sound servers have been an issue for
root/non-root screen reader access to sound for a lot of time. I had not
seen anybody actually take the time to discuss with upstream pulseaudio or
pipewire about it, that's why it never got really fixed, just worked around
in various ways. This summer, at debconf, I discussed with a maintainer of
the pipewire package, this resulted in the pipewire-system-services package,
which one can install to get a system-wide pipewire server that both root
and non-root screen readers can use. Some details probably need to be fixed,
testing&reporting welcome, at least one issue is pending fixing:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1115893
Samuel
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