Hi, As stated by one of the messages on the list, in your example, you should do: aoss swift hello world and not just: swift hello world. I have just tested it on my debian box and it seem to work fine. I used play for the oss application not swift. HTH, Willem On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > My problem with speech-dispatcher persists. I replaced the Debian > speech-dispatcher package with the CVS download, and it still seems to > block OSS applications when it is running, allowing those applications > to work okay when it is not running. In the following short example, > swift is the application that wants to use oss. The example starts with > speech-dispatcher running, and swift fails. Killing speech-dispatcher > and running swift again allows it to work. Running speech-dispatcher > once more and repeating the swift run fails again. > > cq:speechd# swift hello world > oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp > cq:speechd# > cq:speechd# kill -9 `pidof speech-dispatcher` > cq:speechd# > cq:speechd# swift hello world > cq:speechd# > cq:speechd# speech-dispatcher > cq:speechd# swift hello world > oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp > cq:speechd# > > As reported earlier, speech-dispatcher is configured with flite as the > only module loaded, and the flite config file confirms that it is using > alsa. My alsa version is 1.0.14rc3, my kernel is 2.6.21 with speakup, > my distro is Debian Sid. Other apps that fail in a similar way are > madplay and flite, although all alsa applications work fine with or > without speech-dispatcher running. This behavior began when moving up > from the Debian 0.6.2 package, and it happens for root as well as > normal users.. > > My mail is not being accepted at the speech-dispatcher mailing list, > but hopefully someone here may have some suggestion about where I can > look for more info about this issue. Hynek made some suggestions which > I ruled out, so I remain in the dark for the moment. > > Thanks, > Chuck > > > > > - -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (43% of Full) > My new web site location is at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net > College, that fountain of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFG3aW+0maTgpPXM9cRAgApAJ40aFUL0aPsOsG441QUgP6CiuBdJwCgrQjy > qdL0lc+x4h4lx+xy1JKExwo= > =ncL2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. 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.
