speakfreely troubleshoot help please

[Ari Moisio]

Hi!

  Is your card configured to full-deplex, ie it can play and record 
simultaneously?

  To check this, turn your speaker volume down and type command
cat /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp

  Speak to the mikrophone and turn volume up slowly. if you can hear your 
voice after a little delay your card is full-duplex.

  If above command giver error message your card is probably half-duplex 
and you have to recompile speakfreely with -DHALF_DUPLEX option. See 
Makefile for more details.


HTH
-- 
arimo

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 gena-j at bulldoghome.com wrote:

> 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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