Hi Gena. It's not the pernmissions on your binaries, it's either the permissions on your audio devices in /dev, or you are using a sound card that needs the -dneeded-linear option. Look at the permissions on /dev/audio, and /dev/dsp0. Gene >Hi all > >For some time I've been trying to get speakfreely working on a lfs system. I as the user, is in the audio group and the sfmike etc binaries have the followi ng permisions: > > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13402 2006-06-21 21:53 sfconvert >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36936 2006-06-04 21:30 sfecho >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8649 2006-06-21 21:53 sfinfo >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 14672 2006-06-04 21:30 sflaunch >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 10144 2006-06-04 21:30 sflwl >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 18644 2006-06-04 21:30 sflwld >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 125340 2006-06-04 21:30 sfmike >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 45396 2006-06-04 21:30 sfreflect >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 132052 2006-06-04 21:30 sfspeaker > >I can play audio files through ogg123 and mplayer etc but just get the followi ng error when I try to run speakfreely. From memery, it's a cvs version of spe akfreely and the changelog has this top line: > >2002-12-11 Wednesday 18:39 > >This is the error I get: > > > Gena Joyce >Talk: sfmike: unable to initialise audio. > Unable to initialise audio. > >This is a screenshot of having logged onto the reflector and initiating the wh o command, which only lists myself but when I tap the spacebar or someone talks it bails out. > >I can't seem to find any logs to which I can refer nor see what's wrong with m y permissions. Can anyone offer any ideas of what I haven't or have done that is causing this problem? > >Gena M0EBP > >root at orchid > >-- >Wow! Linux From Scratch > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
