speakfreely troubleshoot help please

[gena-j at bulldoghome.com]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:58:02PM -0500, Gene Collins wrote:
> 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.
I'm using my sound blaster, I've had for some years and I'd forgot to include the device permissions but they look OK too:

crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2006-08-16 17:23 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2006-08-16 17:23 dsp

Even root has the problem.

Gena
> 
> 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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