It is most likely your friend's sound card to be honest. WHen I installed ubuntu, alls I did was: >From orca, using gnome-terminal and `su -l`, I updated the system, then installed speech-dispatcher, speechd-up and espeak with: apt-get install speech-dispatcher apt-get install speechd-up apt-get install espeak I got speech-dispatcher running with espeak (note, you have to change speak to espeak in espeak-generic.conf), then I (using a script) did: modprobe speakup_sftsyn speech-dispatcher -d speechd-up -d and everything worked fine. If your friend has orca working with ubuntu, then there (shouldn't) be any reason why speakup doesn't work. HTH, Chris Norman <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Levi Campbell" <levicc00123@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:06 PM Subject: speakup under Ubuntu 6.10 > I've got a friend who is trying to install speakup under Ubuntu 6.10 using > a > 2.6.17 kernel, but when he tries to start it, it gives an error that it > cannot access the sound card. he's using speechd-up version 0.3-0ubuntu1, > speech-dispatcher version 0.6.1-2ubuntu1 and festival version > 1.4.3-17.1ubuntu5. What could be going on and how can it be fixed? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
