ubuntu 11.10 orca and speakup do not work together

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza]

Hi,
Seems that the problem happens if you use the same login to access 
speakup and the GUI interface.
If you use a  login in speakup different than the login  used in the 
graphical environment, you can use orca and speakup at the same time.

On 01/20/2012 02:10 AM, Justin Harford wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Subject says it all, I find that I cannot get orca and speakup to run at the same time on my installation of ubuntu 11.10. It's either one or the other, but never both at the same time. I can tell that both of them are running. For example now, I can hear speakup. I can confirm that orca is running because I see the start up splash thing when orca executes, I just don't hear anything.
>
> It seems like part of my problem has to do with running pulseaudio in system mode. I downloaded the pulsesystem and pulseuser scripts, made by the vinux team, and executed the pulsesystem script in /etc/local/bin after changing its permissions to 755. I restarted the machine, and same result, orca mute, speakup running.
>
> It seems that I am getting this bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/886700
>
> when I try to execute
>
> espeak hello
>
> in the gnome-terminal, which suggests that my problem might have something to do with alsa. Any ideas?
>
> Regards
> Justin Harford