ViaVoice help

ViaVoice help

[w1gm]

Hello,
Me and several friends have slackware 7.1 and are attempting to run
viavoice.  The demo cmdline programs start to speak but hang with what
appears to be unexpected return codes from library functions.  We're
wondering if we may have an incorrect version of a shared library.
Any suggestions welcome.
 --
Chris 
The Moon is Waning Gibbous (98% of Full)

Re: ViaVoice help

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
     First thing to check is if you're using the alsa drivers. If you are,
ViaVoice will not work correctly. I've never figured out whythis is, but it
must be some bug in the ALSA drivers.



On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:23:55AM -0500, w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> Hello,
> Me and several friends have slackware 7.1 and are attempting to run
> viavoice.  The demo cmdline programs start to speak but hang with what
> appears to be unexpected return codes from library functions.  We're
> wondering if we may have an incorrect version of a shared library.
> Any suggestions welcome.

Re: ViaVoice help

[Janina Sajka]

This is not necessarily true. I have had ViaVoice running over ALSA which
now comes with an OSS emmulator.


On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi
>      First thing to check is if you're using the alsa drivers. If you are,
> ViaVoice will not work correctly. I've never figured out whythis is, but it
> must be some bug in the ALSA drivers.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:23:55AM -0500, w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Me and several friends have slackware 7.1 and are attempting to run
> > viavoice.  The demo cmdline programs start to speak but hang with what
> > appears to be unexpected return codes from library functions.  We're
> > wondering if we may have an incorrect version of a shared library.
> > Any suggestions welcome.
>
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Re: ViaVoice help

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
     Yes I know it has an OSS emulator. And it is loaded when I try it, but
the cmdline programs stop with an error saying it can't correctly initialize
the device. What card do you have that you were able to get it working, and
how did you do it?


On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:50:58AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> This is not necessarily true. I have had ViaVoice running over ALSA which
> now comes with an OSS emmulator.

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Re: ViaVoice help

[w1gm]

Jacob,
I've gotten viavoice to speak one or two phrases before it prints some
return codes on the screen and must be stopped with a ctrl-c.  Make sure
your oss modules are loaded by doing an lsmod as root.  I suspect what is
going on is viavoice was tested with a certain set of shared
libraries.  Unfortunately, I can't find documentation on what specific
libraries are needed.  
 -- Chris 
The Moon is Waning Gibbous (87% of Full)

Re: ViaVoice help

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
     Well that's exactly what mine does. Speaks a few phrases and halts with
some odd errors, including a speech device initialization problem. OSS mods
are loaded. Odd thing is that it works fine with non-alsa drivers. The
errors don't seem to indicate a shared library problem outside of ViaVoice,
the return errors seem to come from ViaVoice-specific libraries alone,
though I'm not sure how relevant this is. What are the errors you are
getting, exactly?

     I doubt seriously that it's a shared C library problem. If it was, it
would have probably failed with a segmentation fault or would have
complained about a missing shared object.




On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:19:19AM -0500, w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> Jacob,
> I've gotten viavoice to speak one or two phrases before it prints some
> return codes on the screen and must be stopped with a ctrl-c.  Make sure
> your oss modules are loaded by doing an lsmod as root.  I suspect what is
> going on is viavoice was tested with a certain set of shared
> libraries.  Unfortunately, I can't find documentation on what specific
> libraries are needed.  

Re: ViaVoice help

[Kirk Wood]

Perhaps there is a problem in the OSS abstraction (or emulation). Has
anyone checked with the developers for ALSA project? If it isn't a known
issue, perhaps it can be revealed.

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Re: ViaVoice help

[w1gm]

Jacob,
I don't have the exact return codes in front of me but they appeared to be
from viavoice library functions which were probably displayed by the
cmdline demo programs.  I'll have to go in a compile the kernel module for
my soundcard and try it to see whether it works with the "real" oss.  
A friend of mine speculated that I may have a different pthread library,
but plugging in a different soundcard module should be easy to do.  
Have you used viavoice with anything other than the demo programs?
Chris
 On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:17:28PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi
>      Well that's exactly what mine does. Speaks a few phrases and halts with
> some odd errors, including a speech device initialization problem. OSS mods
> are loaded. Odd thing is that it works fine with non-alsa drivers. The
> errors don't seem to indicate a shared library problem outside of ViaVoice,
> the return errors seem to come from ViaVoice-specific libraries alone,
> though I'm not sure how relevant this is. What are the errors you are
> getting, exactly?
> 
>      I doubt seriously that it's a shared C library problem. If it was, it
> would have probably failed with a segmentation fault or would have
> complained about a missing shared object.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:19:19AM -0500, w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> > Jacob,
> > I've gotten viavoice to speak one or two phrases before it prints some
> > return codes on the screen and must be stopped with a ctrl-c.  Make sure
> > your oss modules are loaded by doing an lsmod as root.  I suspect what is
> > going on is viavoice was tested with a certain set of shared
> > libraries.  Unfortunately, I can't find documentation on what specific
> > libraries are needed.  
> 
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Re: ViaVoice help

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
     Yes, I've used it with emacspeak with success with kernel-supplied
sound modules. However, now that I've got Matt's modified doubletalk server
I don't really need to use it all that much. You're lucky you have a
kernel-supplied module for your sound card. I've got a Yamaha YMF744 chip in
this laptop here and the only driver for that is either with alsa or the
commercial OSS. The kernel-supplied yamaha modules don't work for me, so I'm
effectively stopped using ViaVoice until this little bug is fixed.
      If you're going to mess with the pthread libraries, make backups of
your originals before you do it, and make sure to note the symlinks
correctly. And if that does not turn out to be the issue, as I suspect it's
not, you should put the distribution's pthread libraries back in place.

BTW: Use the script command to get these error codes. Type "script" and then
run the command, hit ctrl-c, then exit the shell that script spawned. The
transcript of your entire shell session will be in the file "typescript",
located in the directory in which you originally ran script.





On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:32:41AM -0500, w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> Jacob,
> I don't have the exact return codes in front of me but they appeared to be
> from viavoice library functions which were probably displayed by the
> cmdline demo programs.  I'll have to go in a compile the kernel module for
> my soundcard and try it to see whether it works with the "real" oss.  
> A friend of mine speculated that I may have a different pthread library,
> but plugging in a different soundcard module should be easy to do.  
> Have you used viavoice with anything other than the demo programs?
> Chris

> 

Re: ViaVoice help

[w1gm]

Jacob,
Using the kernel sound modules did the trick.  For curiiosity, I'll try
the latest alsa drivers to see whether they've made some bug fix in the
OSS emulation.  
Thanks for the tip on the script command.  That can come in handy for
keeping a session log.
It might be straightforward to put together a simple program or script to
use viavoice to read a text file such as a magazine or book.  You could,
for example, set it up to read for a specified length of time, say, 10
minutes and set a closing bookmark to resume reading.  

Thanks again.
Chris
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samba help

[Jonathan Creasy]

ok, this is probably the wrong list for this but I am subscribed to this
one and you guys might be able to help. 

On with the problem:


I have a samba server setup and a network of win machines. When I try to
access the smb box from one of the windows machines I get the error that
the computer is unreachable because the network is busy. 
This server worked last week and won't now, I really don't know why. 
This is my smb config file:
My ip address is : 172.16.201.206 the client ip is the same except .215


[global]
   workgroup = edresearch
   server string = Linux Emulating NT 4.0 
   hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127. 172.16.
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   load printers = yes
   printing = lprng
   guest account = storage
   log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
   max log size = 0
   security = share
;  password server = <NT-Server-Name>
;  password level = 8
;  username level = 8
;  encrypt passwords = yes
;  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
   ssl CA certFile = /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
;  unix password sync = Yes
;  passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
;  passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
;  username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
;  include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%m
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
;  interfaces = 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24 
;  remote browse sync = 192.168.3.25 192.168.5.255
;  remote announce = 192.168.1.255 192.168.2.44
;  local master = no
;  os level = 33
;  domain master = yes 
;  preferred master = yes
;  domain logons = yes
;  logon script = %m.bat
;  logon script = %U.bat
;  name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
;  wins support = yes
;  wins server = w.x.y.z
;  wins proxy = yes
   dns proxy = no 
;  preserve case = no
;  short preserve case = no
;  default case = lower
;  case sensitive = no
;[homes]
;   comment = Home Directories
;   browseable = no
;   writable = yes
[storage]
   comment = Storage Space for Ed. Research
   browseable = yes
   writable = yes
   read-only = no
   guest ok = yes
   public = yes	
   path = /storage/sharespace
[tmp]
   comment = EMPTIED WEEKLY!!!!
   browseable = yes
   writeable = yes
   read-only = no
   guest ok = yes
   public = yes
   path = /home/tmp
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browsable = no
   guest ok = yes
   printable = yes
;[codedir]
;  comment = Source Depository
;  path = /storage/sources
;  valid users = lskutchan rmeridith jhedges rsmith meliand kcreasy jcreasy
;  public = no
;  writable = yes
;  printable = no