[BRLTTY] some strange issues with brltty 5.3.1

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sun, 8 May 2016, Dave Mielke wrote:

> Are you building eSpeak or are you using a prebuilt package? I don't (at least 
> yet know what options it has, but it may need to be rebuilt to use ALSA rather 
> than PA.

Note that when PA is installed, the default ALSA pseudo device routes 
audio to PA and then PA routes the audio back to ALSA through a direct 
hardware device.  So most non-PA aware applications do use PA without 
knowing it.

Specifying another ALSA device might just work. But then it depends if 
it is a soft mixing or a direct hardware device.  In the later case, 
only one application can use it at a time.  And it may well already be 
used by PA.

Another approach which might be worth considering is to have BRLTTY 
execute as non-root.


Nicolas