[BRLTTY] some strange issues with brltty 5.3.1

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/05/08 at 06:34 -0500]

>Would you or some other programmer be willing to hang out on their irc channel 
>#pulseaudio on irc.freenode.net in case I need re-enforcements?

I myself don't like hanging out on IRC channels because it means that I have to 
read through a lot of other stuff in order to pick out what applies to the 
issue(s) I'm actually currently caring about. That's why I much prefer email 
and IM.

>Pulse audio running in system mode isn't an option for our distro either. In 
>addition to it being complicated to set up,

I can help you with that. I'd need to do the same thing as you, though, i.e. 
restudy their documentation. So, should you want me to help, I'll probably beg 
for a root-capable account to log directly into so that I can just work on it. 
Then, of course, I'd tell you exactly what I did to get it to work. If you 
choose this approach then feel free to contact me off list with any security 
sensitive details.

>I don't like the idea of users being able to affect other user's sounds and 
>per application volumes being set per system, not per user.

But you control that. The only accounts that can connect to Pulse Audio are 
those in the pulse-access group. Of course, if you'd like regular users to be 
able to play audio (which you should) then, yes, they'd also need to be in that 
group.

The last time I looked into this kind of stuff, I'm sure what I discovered is 
that Pulse Audio ultimately uses an ALSA device to communicate to the actual 
sound card. I'm wondering, therefore, if there might be some way to tell eSpeak 
to directly use the under-lying ALSA device rather than to go through Pulse 
Audio.

>So it's  back in the trenches with me. 

Not necessarily. If eSpeak can be told to directly use ALSA then your problem 
should be solved.

>Sometimes I
>wish more people did my job ... 

We all have that problem in one way or another. :-)

Besides ... Nothing good in life ever comes easily.

>I was hoping you could shame them into helping if that's what it came down to 
>it. I certainly don't have much luck because I don't know how to get them to 
>help when they obviously don't really want to.

I myself don't like shaming people. I believe that we should always be treating 
others in the very same way that we wish they'd be treating us.

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