A couple problems

[guy schlosser]

Hey there Michael, thanks for the response.  I don't have a program 
called start-stop-daemon. I did a whereis, and got nothing.  Any 
other way to start festival in the background?

Thanks again in advance for the help,


Guy


At 03:54 AM 10/31/2006, you wrote:

> > Hello,
>For espeak, if compiling, you probably need the devel rpm for portaudio.
>
>For festival, just executing "festival --server" will not return to the
>shell, so scripts cannot continue. The solution is to use start-stop-daemon
>starting festival in the background, if festival was from a rpm you probably
>have a script installed in the startup script directory, you just need that
>to be executed on start up (I don't know how you do this on fedora).
>
>From
>Michael Whapples
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:25 PM
> > Subject: A couple problems
> >
> >
> >> Hello all:
> >>
> >> I've got a couple problems and need a little assistance figuring out
> >> what's going on.  First, I got my Fedora core 6 installed without
> >> problems.  I installed speech-dispatcher from the tar balls at
> >> www.freebsoft.org, and all seems to have went OK there.  Here's where I'm
> >> having trouble.  1., when I try to compile Espeak after doing yum install
> >> portaudio, I get make errors that say "no definition for thread join and
> >> thread cancel."  Lastly, I put the following lines in my rc.local file to
> >> get speech-dispatcher running, and at least festival for now.
> >> festival --server
> >> speech-dispatcher.
> >>
> >> Now, when I boot, I get the message from festival that says that the
> >> server started, and then I don't get to the login prompt.  Is there
> >> something I should have put after festival --server?  Or, is there a
> >> better way to start festival and speech-dispatcher on boot?  Furthermore,
> >> how can I regain access to my box?  Do I have to telnet in from another
> >> machine?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >>
> >> Guy
> >>
> >>
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