Problem with 6.5rc1

Jan Buchal buchal at brailcom.org
Tue Nov 27 12:45:59 CET 2007


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

    LB> Luke Yelavich <themuso at themuso.com> writes:
    >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:30:00PM EST, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
    >>> Hi!
    >>> 
    >>> If I, as a regular user, do 'speech-dispatcher -P sd.pid', I get
    >>> the following error message:
    >>> 
    >>> Tue Nov 27 10:20:14 2007 [23511] ALSA: Closing ALSA device Tue
    >>> Nov 27 10:20:14 2007 [23945] ALSA: ALSA closed.
    >> 
    >> It sounds like you have audio permissions problems. Are you a
    >> member of the audio group, or your distribution's equivalent?

    LB> I'm not sure about that. I'm running Fedora f7. Output of ls -al
    LB> /dev/audio gives: crw-rw----+ 1 lrs root 14, 4 2007-11-17 22:38
    LB> /dev/audio

    LB> and the user who tired to start speech-dispatcher was lrs. In
    LB> addition, output of ls -al /dev/dsp gives: crw-rw----+ 1 lrs
    LB> root 14, 3 2007-11-17 22:38 /dev/dsp

    LB> I'm able to play e.g. with mplayer as the user lrs too.
dsp is oss device. My sound device has owner speech-dispatcher and group
audio. Can you send more info from espeak.log or another outputmodule
log which you use?


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