On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:58:02PM -0500, Gene Collins wrote: > 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. I'm using my sound blaster, I've had for some years and I'd forgot to include the device permissions but they look OK too: crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2006-08-16 17:23 audio crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2006-08-16 17:23 dsp Even root has the problem. Gena > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch
