* Sound Devices on Arch? @ Steve Holmes ` Chuck Hallenbeck 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup 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. When I do a 'aplay -l' I get the following: aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found... Any idea what I could be missing here? Thanks for the help. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Sound Devices on Arch? Sound Devices on Arch? Steve Holmes @ ` Chuck Hallenbeck ` Christopher Brannon ` Steve Holmes 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Chuck Hallenbeck @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Sound Devices on Arch? ` Chuck Hallenbeck @ ` Christopher Brannon ` Steve Holmes ` Steve Holmes 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Christopher Brannon @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net> writes: > I solved a similar problem here by changing permissions on aplay, like > this: > > # chmod 4755 /usr/bin/aplay Hi Chuck and Steve, That makes your aplay binary setuid root! There's no need to do that. Just add your non-root user to the audio group. -- Chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Sound Devices on Arch? ` Christopher Brannon @ ` Steve Holmes 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Yeah, thanks for the reminder. I jumped on this so quickly I hadn't seen your message; I basically forgot to add myself to the audio group. It had been long enough since my last arch install, I had forgotten this detail. Also, I'm pleased to hear that I can play sounds simultaneously while speakup is running without device contentions. I didn't think that would be possible with these laptops. On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 05:52:09PM +0000, Christopher Brannon wrote: > Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net> writes: > > > I solved a similar problem here by changing permissions on aplay, like > > this: > > > > # chmod 4755 /usr/bin/aplay > > Hi Chuck and Steve, > That makes your aplay binary setuid root! There's no need to do that. > Just add your non-root user to the audio group. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Sound Devices on Arch? ` Chuck Hallenbeck ` Christopher Brannon @ ` Steve Holmes ` Chuck Hallenbeck 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Sound Devices on Arch? ` Steve Holmes @ ` Chuck Hallenbeck 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Chuck Hallenbeck @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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