From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Sound Devices on Arch?
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:42:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101211174256.GA10747@rx.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101211173350.GA2323@linlap.lan>
Hi Steve,
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I just installed Arch Linux on my new laptop but I have run into something
> I can't seem to figure out. It seems that speech is working fine but I can't
> play any sound files. Alsa complains that it can't find a device.
> Yet, my machine talks fine with Speakup, espeak and the espeakup connector.
I solved a similar problem here by changing permissions on aplay, like
this:
# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/aplay
I had to do the same thing with the beep command. If it's not too
serious a security risk, you might want to try it. It's an easy enough
change to undo if you need to.
Chuck
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