trying again, new talking arch and audio problems

trying again, new talking arch and audio problems

[Rob Hudson]

Tried sending this to the list and got a message about it being too long, so here we are again. The exported errors are at a link which I will give below. 

I put in the new TalkingArch cd. I heard yammering about choosing a sound card, listen

for the beep, blah blah, press any key, yack yack. All that went well, I heard a

beep and pressed enter twice. No espeak. I did

/bin/bash

speaker-test

heard the hiss, so alsa appeared to be working well. Fired up brltty

killall brltty

brltty -b al -d ttyS0

espeak "hello"

Saw a whole screen of errors, which I redirected to a text file. 

pasted below. Not

knowing what was important and not, the whole thing is here.

Audio configuration is a sound blaster live card, and a disabled onboard audio sound

chip. It is this latter which I believe is causing the problem. Ok, scratch that, as of this new writing, even with the hcip re enabled, I still get the errors. Everything else seems to work except espeak.

What is happening here? 

The link to the file with the errors is: 

http://opopanax.net/speakup.txt

Re: trying again, new talking arch and audio problems

[Kyle]

When typing

espeak hello

Do you hear "hello" at all, or do you only get the errors? For some
reason, Espeak will many times produce a whole host of strange-looking
alsa errors, but it still talks. This especially causes problems in
Debian Wheezy if you have installed a desktop environment, as Espeak
speaks all the errors that are printed to the console as GDM begins
running, so the user is forced to go into a text console to stop it
prior to logging into GDM. However, on a Talking Arch system, the errors
can generally be safely ignored, as long as Espeak is in fact talking.
Most of the time, the espeakup system service will log the harmless
errors rather than printing all that chatter to the console. If the
harmless errors I refer to are in fact not harmless, e.g. Espeak simply
doesn't talk, please write back, and I will dig a bit deeper into the
problem if I can. Hope this helps.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
-- 
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: trying again, new talking arch and audio problems

[Rob Hudson]

I hear nothing. NO espeak. I still find it weird that sound works otherwise.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle" <kyle4jesus@gmail.com>
To: <speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: trying again, new talking arch and audio problems


> When typing
> 
> espeak hello
> 
> Do you hear "hello" at all, or do you only get the errors? For some
> reason, Espeak will many times produce a whole host of strange-looking
> alsa errors, but it still talks. This especially causes problems in
> Debian Wheezy if you have installed a desktop environment, as Espeak
> speaks all the errors that are printed to the console as GDM begins
> running, so the user is forced to go into a text console to stop it
> prior to logging into GDM. However, on a Talking Arch system, the errors
> can generally be safely ignored, as long as Espeak is in fact talking.
> Most of the time, the espeakup system service will log the harmless
> errors rather than printing all that chatter to the console. If the
> harmless errors I refer to are in fact not harmless, e.g. Espeak simply
> doesn't talk, please write back, and I will dig a bit deeper into the
> problem if I can. Hope this helps.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
> -- 
> "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
> Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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