An audio problem

[Jan Buchal]

>>>>> "LB" == Lars Bjørndal <lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no> writes:

    LB> Hi! If I as root start speech-dispatcher, then do an mplayer
    LB> command to listen to an audio stream as a regular user, mplayer
    LB> exits with:

    LB> [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Permission denied

    LB> If I then, as root, start mplayer, it plays, and subsequent
    LB> starts of the mplayer command as the first regular user again,
    LB> it also works. Is that a known problem?
Which soundoutputmetod do you use in your speech-dispatcher
configuration. You have check all loaded modules, espeak, flite or
festival for example. For good result you need set to alsa and restart
the speech-dispatcher.

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Jan Buchal
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