Speakup/Festival Config Question

[Michael Curran]

I get exactly the same

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:23:45PM +0200, Doug wrote:
> Owen,
> 
> I am having a problem in the final steps of getting
> your speakup mods working with festival. The patches
> were applied with no errors and the kernel compiled
> just fine. I created the usrdev device:
> 
> ls -l /dev/usrdev
> crwxrwxrwx   1 root root 252, 0  /dev/usrdev
> 
> The major device number is 252, which is what is
> hardcoded in speakup_usrdev.h
> 
> But then I boot I get these messages:
> 
> Speakup usrdev: Registered as char device major #0
> Speakup usrdev: Minor number is 0
> Speakup v-1.00 CVS: initialized
> 
> and later I get the message
> speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
> 
> 
> Note that initially the usrdev is listed as major 0 minor 0.
> Do you have any idea what might be wrong here?
> 
> These are my kernel config options:
> 
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP=y
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_USRDEV=y
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DEFAULT="usrdev"
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_KEYMAP=y
> 
> Another issue ... can you please tell me the right commands
> to start festival as server and start the middleware program?
> If I run festival I get an interactive session. How do I
> make it run as server?
> 
> If I start festival as usual I get the interactive session
> and festival works. I can do (SayText "festival works")
> and it speaks fine. If I open another tty and then start
> the middleware program I get this message:
> 
> Festival server: localhost, on port: 1214 with mode: fundamental
> festival_client: connect to server failed
> failed to open Festival: connection refused
> Speech Error!
> 
> Unix sockets and TCP/IP is installed,  and I can ping
> localhost, in case that matters ...
> 
> Any ideas? I am so close ... but so far ...
> Why would the usrdev be major #0?
> 
>   -- Doug
> 
> 
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Michael D. Curran
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