The second festival patch not working

[Owen Patrick Smith]

It seems as though you've got everything set up correctly.  I'm kinda busy
right not with other classes but are you running the middleware program in
the backgraound?  If not the program will never exit so you'll never get a
command prompt again.  I think that using speakup_synth=usrdev will work
but I haven't tested it yet, I'll try to do that soon.  If compiling it
with usrdev as default works let me know.  The only thing besides not
running it in the background is if you are trying to use xterms then
speakup can't read from them which would cause the speakup never to
generate data for us to read.  If I think of anything else that might
cause it I'll let you know.

Owen

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Michael Curran wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have successfully patched in the second festival patch ... the one from
> Owen and his crew. Although,  it just doesn't seem to talk.
> Festival can read files fine ... festival --tts <file>
> Festival certainly works on my system. And I even have a
> /proc/speakup/Userland  character-device output dir
> So the usrdev driver seems to work fine.
> I've now also created the /dev/usrdev file:
> mknod /dev/usrdev c 252 0
> (I double-checked those numbers in /proc/devices).
> Now, when I run middleware, it connects to the festival server fine. But:
> It doesn't seem to speak when I hit anything on the keyboard and also, it
> suddenly decides to just exit itself when I do things like press the numpad
> plus key.
> (doesn't print any errors though).
>
> (I didn't make usrdev as the default synth, only passed speakup_synth=usrdev
> to kernel at bootup).
>
> Is anyone else having any of these problems, or, does anyone have any ideas
> on what I might be doing wrong?
> (Right now I'm recompiling with usrdev as default synth and seeing how that
> goes, although I can't really see how that would change anything).
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>