[Bug 54975] Re: Aplay terminates Fonix DECtalk, sometimes Orca

[Joanie]

Hi Henrik!

Yup, Feisty is on this laptop.  And I've been using eSpeak lately.  I
hadn't tried the test in this bug with it, however.  Turns out the
problem is slightly worse under those circumstances.  With DECTalk, the
second play of the .wav file causes me to lose speech, but not sound.
With eSpeak running, I lose all sound and get this error:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:550: audio open error: Device or resource busy

I continue to get that error until I quit Orca.

On a related note, I just realized that I'm seeing similar
competition/resource grabbing in at least one other environment:  Totem.
If I am using eSpeak with Orca and launch Totem (with no media files
open or playing), Orca will not speak the contents of anything (e.g. the
menu items).  If I am using DECTalk, however, Orca will.  Guess I should
file that. :-)

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Aplay terminates Fonix DECtalk, sometimes Orca
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54975