From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2480AC1A44C for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:25:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F186A633 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:25:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:25:50 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=smtpout; bh=YjarLYazPu14yDVluy7K8wFqKv0=; b=q2CRId+gnO2ZmENIAGm1tPa4L8g1SNHOkmIjJKwqrnqUBUyDsaST7IYXM1bbjR9zUmGpsxgF2x6/uz4IBxUIwyGT9SmpqwoUn8Y2AhK4AVuNLEcnq5+0K+PUCT1mLo4hXE1f+JQsugKjBbzOFGPgBYrnio7SJcLG4UKW4YX8GwU= X-Sasl-enc: qEBQ+4t9sVHTmPTWyZt/ls3IrIwOoZfOZgcM5MLTtNnW 1292091950 Received: from rx.localhost (24-148-119-82.ip.mhcable.com [24.148.119.82]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A48A85E29DA for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:25:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:25:49 -0500 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Sound Devices on Arch? Message-ID: <20101211182549.GA11921@rx.localhost> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20101211173350.GA2323@linlap.lan> <20101211174256.GA10747@rx.localhost> <20101211181634.GA6924@linlap.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101211181634.GA6924@linlap.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:25:51 -0000 Hi Steve and Chris, That was simple, glad you got it solved. But my problem was a little different. My non-root user was already in the audio group, and the instances of aplay that produced that error were in that user's procmailrc file. I am retrieving my email with getmail, and delivering it directly to procmail, which has a couple of recipes that use aplay to generate sounds when certain headers are encountered. It was a setup that worked fine up until some particular upgrade, after which it was only those aplays within the procmailrc that were failing. Using aplay from a command prompt worked fine. The beep man page discusses setting that program to run suid, so I used that technique with aplay. Lo and behold it worked. Chuck On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:16:34AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Hi Chuck, Thanks for the idea but better yet, I found the fix which might > be even better. I forgot to do this first. I connected my normal user, > 'steve' to the audio group. Once I did that, not even aplay but espeak > worked better without the modification of individual permissions. > > Thanks again though; I had discovered during all this that I could do these commands > in root without any problems. Glad it was this easy. > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:42:56PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (33% of Full) > > Website: hallenbeck.ftml.net, Jabber ID: chuckh1@jabber.org > > -------- > > You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings. > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (33% of Full) Website: hallenbeck.ftml.net, Jabber ID: chuckh1@jabber.org -------- You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings.