speakfreely troubleshoot help please

[Gene Collins]

Hi Gena.  It's not the pernmissions on your binaries, it's either the
permissions on your audio devices in /dev, or you are using a sound card
that needs the -dneeded-linear option.

Look at the permissions on /dev/audio, and /dev/dsp0.

Gene

>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 followi
ng 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 followi
ng error when I try to run speakfreely.  From memery, it's a cvs version of spe
akfreely 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 wh
o 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 m
y permissions.  Can anyone offer any ideas of what I haven't or have done that 
is causing this problem?
>
>Gena M0EBP
>
>root at orchid
>
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