OK. Sound is now working. Emacspeak is working again. I've got the
Festival server invoking on boot up. I successfully ran a (SayText
"hello") command and got synthesized speech out of Festival. The last, I
think, issue remaining to having Speakup work for me at bootup is invoking
"middleware" in the /etc/init.d/ scripts.
Using find, which and locate indicates that I have only one possible
executable named middleware that the instructions at:
http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux/installation_instructions.txt
might be referring to.
That is:
/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware/middleware
>hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$ file middleware
>middleware: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
>GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$ ./middleware
>Failed to open file: No such device
>hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$
I had the same error messages when I attempted to invoke this as root, and
when I chown root:audio on /dev/usrdev. . . . and when I chmod 664 to that
device. (I changed those back, after they didn't work).
So, I'm lost. I've exhausted anything I would know how to try. Still its
been a good night. I now have sound and networking back on this machine.
Its after 2am here in Georgia. I'm going to quit while I'm ahead, before I
start munging up the works again. Any clues for moving forward toward
giving me a working speakup installation would be greatly
appreciated. I'll check this list in the morning to see if I can get this
going.
Thanks,
-- Hugh Esco
