Hi Chuck, Thanks for the idea but better yet, I found the fix which might be even better. I forgot to do this first. I connected my normal user, 'steve' to the audio group. Once I did that, not even aplay but espeak worked better without the modification of individual permissions. Thanks again though; I had discovered during all this that I could do these commands in root without any problems. Glad it was this easy. On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:42:56PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > I just installed Arch Linux on my new laptop but I have run into something > > I can't seem to figure out. It seems that speech is working fine but I can't > > play any sound files. Alsa complains that it can't find a device. > > Yet, my machine talks fine with Speakup, espeak and the espeakup connector. > > I solved a similar problem here by changing permissions on aplay, like > this: > > # chmod 4755 /usr/bin/aplay > > I had to do the same thing with the beep command. If it's not too > serious a security risk, you might want to try it. It's an easy enough > change to undo if you need to. > > Chuck > > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (33% of Full) > Website: hallenbeck.ftml.net, Jabber ID: chuckh1 at jabber.org > -------- > You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
