Cheers mate. Chris Norman <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Sound systems (Was:) Re: software synth on old laptop > Alsa if it works, because that is where future development is taking place > and it generally allows for better control over the sound cards. > > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Chris Norman wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I am just thinking, which is better? OSS or ALSA? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris Norman >> <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:38 PM >> Subject: Re: software synth on old laptop >> >> >> > -----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----- >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > -- > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and > e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent > the > views of the CSIR. > > CSIR E-mail Legal Notice > http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html > > CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions > http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html > > For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the > CSIR > Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line > to > CallCentre at csir.co.za. > > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > MailScanner, > and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for > their support. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup