Chris Moore:
Thanks for the blow by blow. Here is what happened.
At 09:43 AM 7/29/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hugh,
>I'm not using debian, but the same techniques should apply. Before you
>worry about the startup script, you need to get it working by hand.
>
>1. Bot with your speakup kernel and festival driver. I have a separate
>section in my lilo.conf so I can type in "festival" at the boot prompt to
>force speakup toload the usrdev driver.
My default kernel in the lilo boot menu is Linux_speakup4. That's handled.
>2. Once you log in as root, you need to make sure your soundcard is
>functioning. Try playing a wave file or and mp3 to make sure you have
>sound enabled.
I was able to use esdplay to play a sound
from /usr/share/sounds, both as root and as hesco.
>3. Make sure that the festival modules are in your path. My festival was
>built in /opt directory so I used the following command to fix the PATH
>variable.
>
>export PATH=/opt/festival/bin:$PATH
I have done this both as root and as hesco.
Only my Festival path is, I believe, /usr/lib/festival.
>4. start the festival server as a background process.
>% festival_server &
This generates "command not found" bash errors.
In /usr/bin, I have festival and festival_client.
I can sort of successfully run festival &
It gives me a process id, then at the next prompt,
a start-up message and copyright notice,
but no festival prompt. When I hit return,
it stops the background process and returns me
to a bash prompt.
I already have festival invoked by /etc/init.d/, however,
so this may not be an issue. In fact, ps aux | grep festival
says I have three processes running:
244 /usr/bin/festival --server
1895 festival
1898 grep festival
>5. If you don't get any error messages, your're probably ready to run
>middleware.
>
>% cd /path/to/middleware
>% ./middleware &
That would be:
cd /usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware
./middleware &
I get a process id (1902) and a message printed
at the next bash prompt that it:
Failed to open file: No such device
Hitting return gives me an Exit message.
ps aux | grep middleware shows only one line:
1905 grep middleware
>If all goes well you should hear some speech. Give us a report.
>
>Chris
And no speech. What device is it that middleware is unable to open?
Might this be a permission problem? I've run this as root.
Should I try it as hesco? That gives me the same result.
And this is where I was stuck last time?
I'm very close, but not yet there.
All clues are appreciated. Thanks.
-- Hugh Esco
