Hi! Is your card configured to full-deplex, ie it can play and record simultaneously? To check this, turn your speaker volume down and type command cat /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp Speak to the mikrophone and turn volume up slowly. if you can hear your voice after a little delay your card is full-duplex. If above command giver error message your card is probably half-duplex and you have to recompile speakfreely with -DHALF_DUPLEX option. See Makefile for more details. HTH -- arimo On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 gena-j at bulldoghome.com wrote: > 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--- > >
