Yeah, thanks for the reminder. I jumped on this so quickly I hadn't seen your message; I basically forgot to add myself to the audio group. It had been long enough since my last arch install, I had forgotten this detail. Also, I'm pleased to hear that I can play sounds simultaneously while speakup is running without device contentions. I didn't think that would be possible with these laptops. On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 05:52:09PM +0000, Christopher Brannon wrote: > Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh at ftml.net> writes: > > > I solved a similar problem here by changing permissions on aplay, like > > this: > > > > # chmod 4755 /usr/bin/aplay > > Hi Chuck and Steve, > That makes your aplay binary setuid root! There's no need to do that. > Just add your non-root user to the audio group. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
