An audio problem

[Jan Buchal]

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

    LB> 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.

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

OK, you have probably one  channel sound card, right? Then it can be
dmix problem. Maybe you have a .asoundrc in a home directory or in
global path which can bring some problem. Try move it.


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