-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aplay is an alsa program, so it won't work with oss. You need to use play instead, if you're using oss. Greg On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:25:00PM -0600, John Heim wrote: > Do I have to use alsa sound drivers to use speakup with espeak? > > I've installed alsa-utils and I've run alsaconf but there seems to be a > problem. I get error messages that it can't find device 0. I have this > really old laptop with a Sound Blaster 8 built in. I've loaded the correct > modues manually 'modprobe snd-sb8' but no matter what I do, I can't seem to > get sound at all via the alsa drivers. > > The oss drivers work fine. But I can't get speech-dispatcher to work with > espeak. I saw that in the espeak config file, it calls aplay. And aplay > won't work possibly because I'm not using the alsa drivers. Am I on the > right track here? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFWOXk7s9z/XlyUyARAk0yAJ9WUV2TrFeVbNX2BhOb7Fcdx12QbACcDYBG naAei15OBY80yTc8J+IaNAw= =hr43 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
