Chris:
Here is what I got in response to those first two questions:
hesco at biko:~$ ls -l /dev/usrdev
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 252, 0 Jul 19 22:54 /dev/usrdev
hesco at biko:~$ ls -l /proc/speakup
total 0
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 attribute_bleep
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 bell_pos
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 bleep_time
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 characters
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 key_echo
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 line_wrap_bleep
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 no_interrupt
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 punc_all
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 punc_level
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 punc_most
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 punc_some
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 say_control
--w--w--w- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 silent
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 spell_delay
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 synth
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 30 20:39 version
hesco at biko:~$
So, no, there is no directory in there.
Why not? What would build that directory there?
I just edited lilo.conf to add a line:
append="speakup_synth=usrdev"
to my Speakup stanza.
I assume I should spell it "append", not "apend" as you did? I ran lilo
without errors. I'm rebooting now. We'll soon see.
Well, it booted up with no speech, but then again, the last set of changes
I made were handled manually and were not scripted in, so I'll repeat those
and see what I can get.
I went back and re-examined my notes from the last round. I re-tested
sound, re-exported the path, used ps to check and make sure festival
--server was still running, then attempted again to invoke
middleware. Again, I get "Failed to open file: No such device" error.
I get the same results when I try all that as root, too.
What next? Anyone?
-- Hugh
At 02:25 PM 7/30/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hugh,
>
>I was surprised you didn't have a festival_server in your festival/bin
>directory. My version of festival is 1.4.3 which I built from sources last
>week. Perhaps running festival with the --server option is the same as
>running festival_server, but I'd need to read more docs to verify it.
>
>You need festival to run as a server because that's how middleware
>communicates with it. I just look at the festival help screen and is says
>you can invoke it as you did to go into server mode.
>
>Did you make the /dev/usrdev devicefile with the mknod command? Do a
>% ls -l /dev/usrdev
>Mine looks like:
>crw-r--r-- 1 root root 252, 0 Jul 28 16:18 /dev/usrdev
>
>You can check if you've loaded the festival speakup driver by doing an
>% ls /proc/speakup
>
>You should see a subdirectory for the festival driver. I don't recall its
>name, but it should be the only subdirectory listed. Within it are
>settings for the festival driver.
>
>If I think of anything else, I'll pass it along.
>
>Chris
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