An audio problem

[Lars Bjørndal]

Jan Buchal <buchal at brailcom.org> writes:

>>>>>> "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.

All modules, e.g. espeak and espeak-generic were already set to "alsa",
the default value.

Lars