Hi, Yes, I did make modules and make modules_install. I can't play the file when I'm logged in as root. As for the permissions on dsp0, I'll let you know about that at the earliest on Friday if I don't forget. Thanks for the help. Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 9:01 PM Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.18 help please > Hi: > > OK, one question at a time. The PPP and network card modules. Did you do > a "make modules" and "make modules_install" when you compiled the kernel? > If not, that's why it's not working. You should be able to go to your > kernel tree and just do this and reboot. > > With the dsp thing, first we need to determine where the problem is. Do > you get this error if you try playing a file as root? If not, then you > need to put yourself in the group that owns the device. It's probably > audio. Do: > > ls -l /dev/dsp0 > > It's probably owned by root and the audio group. Take a look in /etc/group > to see if you're in the appropriate group. The format of the group file > is: > > <group-name>:x:<group-ID>:<user1>,<user2>,<user3> > > For example, my audio entry looks like this: > > audio:x:29:geoff,amanda > > You'll need to ensure that your user-level account is in the group that has > write permission to the dsp0 device. You'll want to ensure that the > permissions on this device are something like: > > crw-rw---- > > You'lll want to check this for /dev/audio0 as well. > > Let me know if I've lost you <grin> > > As for OCR, there seem to be 2 options available. The ocrshop thing I've > not fiddled with but it seems to be a goer if you want to pay US$100. It > apparently has the omnipage 8 OCR engine. The other is a GPL project > called gocr (or jocr, depending on who you ask). It has some way to go in > quality, but hey it's free. From what I've heard, ruby pretty much leads > the way in OCR, so anything else pretty much is going to pull up short (I'm > happy to be contradicted on this though). > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
