Any experience w/ Debian Woody Speakup Packages?

[Luke Davis]

Hmm.  I know dittly about middleware, or any of it, but a suggestion would
be to try strace on middleware, to determine where exactly it is breaking.

Regards,

Luke



On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Hugh Esco wrote:

> OK.  Sound is now working.  Emacspeak is working again.  I've got the
> Festival server invoking on boot up.  I successfully ran a (SayText
> "hello") command and got synthesized speech out of Festival.  The last, I
> think, issue remaining to having Speakup work for me at bootup is invoking
> "middleware" in the /etc/init.d/ scripts.
>
> Using find, which and locate indicates that I have only one possible
> executable named middleware that the instructions at:
>          http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux/installation_instructions.txt
> might be referring to.
>
> That is:
>          /usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware/middleware
>
> >hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$ file middleware
> >middleware: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
> >GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> >hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$ ./middleware
> >Failed to open file: No such device
> >hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$
>
> I had the same error messages when I attempted to invoke this as root, and
> when I chown root:audio on /dev/usrdev.  . . . and when I chmod 664 to that
> device.  (I changed those back, after they didn't work).
>
> So, I'm lost.  I've exhausted anything I would know how to try.  Still its
> been a good night.  I now have sound and networking back on this machine.
>
> Its after 2am here in Georgia.  I'm going to quit while I'm ahead, before I
> start munging up the works again.  Any clues for moving forward toward
> giving me a working speakup installation would be greatly
> appreciated.  I'll check this list in the morning to see if I can get this
> going.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Hugh Esco
>
>
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