Owen, I am having a problem in the final steps of getting your speakup mods working with festival. The patches were applied with no errors and the kernel compiled just fine. I created the usrdev device: ls -l /dev/usrdev crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 252, 0 /dev/usrdev The major device number is 252, which is what is hardcoded in speakup_usrdev.h But then I boot I get these messages: Speakup usrdev: Registered as char device major #0 Speakup usrdev: Minor number is 0 Speakup v-1.00 CVS: initialized and later I get the message speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25) Note that initially the usrdev is listed as major 0 minor 0. Do you have any idea what might be wrong here? These are my kernel config options: CONFIG_SPEAKUP=y CONFIG_SPEAKUP_USRDEV=y CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DEFAULT="usrdev" CONFIG_SPEAKUP_KEYMAP=y Another issue ... can you please tell me the right commands to start festival as server and start the middleware program? If I run festival I get an interactive session. How do I make it run as server? If I start festival as usual I get the interactive session and festival works. I can do (SayText "festival works") and it speaks fine. If I open another tty and then start the middleware program I get this message: Festival server: localhost, on port: 1214 with mode: fundamental festival_client: connect to server failed failed to open Festival: connection refused Speech Error! Unix sockets and TCP/IP is installed, and I can ping localhost, in case that matters ... Any ideas? I am so close ... but so far ... Why would the usrdev be major #0? -- Doug
