Hmm. I know dittly about middleware, or any of it, but a suggestion would be to try strace on middleware, to determine where exactly it is breaking. Regards, Luke On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Hugh Esco wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
