speakfreely troubleshoot help please

[gena-j at bulldoghome.com]

Hi all

For some time I've been trying to get speakfreely working on a lfs system.  I as the user, is in the audio group and the sfmike etc binaries have the following permisions:


-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   13402 2006-06-21 21:53 sfconvert
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   36936 2006-06-04 21:30 sfecho
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    8649 2006-06-21 21:53 sfinfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio  14672 2006-06-04 21:30 sflaunch
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio  10144 2006-06-04 21:30 sflwl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio  18644 2006-06-04 21:30 sflwld
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 125340 2006-06-04 21:30 sfmike
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio  45396 2006-06-04 21:30 sfreflect
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 132052 2006-06-04 21:30 sfspeaker

I can play audio files through ogg123 and mplayer etc but just get the following error when I try to run speakfreely.  From memery, it's a cvs version of speakfreely and the changelog has this top line:

2002-12-11 Wednesday 18:39 

This is the error I get:


                         Gena Joyce
Talk:   sfmike: unable to initialise audio.
                                           Unable to initialise audio.

This is a screenshot of having logged onto the reflector and initiating the who command, which only lists myself but when I tap the spacebar or someone talks it bails out.

I can't seem to find any logs to which I can refer nor see what's wrong with my permissions.  Can anyone offer any ideas of what I haven't or have done that is causing this problem?

Gena M0EBP

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