Hey there Michael, thanks for the response. I don't have a program called start-stop-daemon. I did a whereis, and got nothing. Any other way to start festival in the background? Thanks again in advance for the help, Guy At 03:54 AM 10/31/2006, you wrote: > > Hello, >For espeak, if compiling, you probably need the devel rpm for portaudio. > >For festival, just executing "festival --server" will not return to the >shell, so scripts cannot continue. The solution is to use start-stop-daemon >starting festival in the background, if festival was from a rpm you probably >have a script installed in the startup script directory, you just need that >to be executed on start up (I don't know how you do this on fedora). > >From >Michael Whapples > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:25 PM > > Subject: A couple problems > > > > > >> Hello all: > >> > >> I've got a couple problems and need a little assistance figuring out > >> what's going on. First, I got my Fedora core 6 installed without > >> problems. I installed speech-dispatcher from the tar balls at > >> www.freebsoft.org, and all seems to have went OK there. Here's where I'm > >> having trouble. 1., when I try to compile Espeak after doing yum install > >> portaudio, I get make errors that say "no definition for thread join and > >> thread cancel." Lastly, I put the following lines in my rc.local file to > >> get speech-dispatcher running, and at least festival for now. > >> festival --server > >> speech-dispatcher. > >> > >> Now, when I boot, I get the message from festival that says that the > >> server started, and then I don't get to the login prompt. Is there > >> something I should have put after festival --server? Or, is there a > >> better way to start festival and speech-dispatcher on boot? Furthermore, > >> how can I regain access to my box? Do I have to telnet in from another > >> machine? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> > >> > >> Guy > >> > >> > >> -- > >> No virus found in this outgoing message. > >> Checked by AVG. > >> Version: 7.5.427 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: > >> 10/27/2006 3:15 PM > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
