I know this may seem obvious, but have you changed speakup to sftsyn before trying to start speechd-up? (I have tried to get my email client to try and connect to hotwayd, but forgotten to start it, and then it suddenly dawned on me). I found that it doesn't always start unless that is done. Don't know if that would give the error you are saying about in the log, but worth a try. From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Trouble with speech dispatcher. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > More specificly, I'm having trouble with speechd-up. It says it cannot > find /dev/softsynth. Well, I have had that device all along and I just > now rebuilt it in case there was something wrong and I still have the > problem. I'm now using Speakup from latest CVS with kernel 2.6.16.12, > Speech-dispatcher 0.6 and speechd-up 0.3. I should point out that I was > using this stuff a month or so ago with Dectalk speech and no problems > at that time. I will now include the log from /var/log/speechd-up.log > - ----- Beginning of log ----- > [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: Speechd-speakup starts! > [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: Error while openning the device in > read/write mode 19,No such device > [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: Trying to open the device in the old > way. > [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: Error while openning the device in > read mode 19,No such device > [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: ERROR! Unable to open soft synth > device (/dev/softsynth) > - ----- End of log ----- > Yes, if I do a ls -l on /dev/softsynth, I get the following: > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 26 2006-05-17 00:18 softsynth > This is inside the /dev directory. > > I get same errors whether I try using Dectalk, flite or now espeak. In > fact, I manually tested espeak through the spd-say command and that part > does work. So it is the soft synth problem that I can't figure out. > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEatI0WSjv55S0LfERA2w2AJ4kTUO40dtscRE5bnYFpp/Oe6wCogCfY7Fd > KV344ueqi1HXvxSpWVhz6qk= > =OkwR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
