From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.7]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GDOnO-0006ZK-00 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:03:10 -0400 Received: by mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com (Postfix, from userid 1005) id BF17071060E; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:02:34 +0100 (BST) X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=8.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 Received: from localhost (host-87-75-129-252.bulldogdsl.com [87.75.129.252]) by mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A2370FEEB for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:02:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:03:53 +0100 From: gena-j@bulldoghome.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: speakfreely troubleshoot help please Message-ID: <20060816170353.GA3248@bulldoghome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:03:10 -0000 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 root@orchid -- Wow! Linux From Scratch