* Speakfreely problem:
@ Dawes, Stephen
` Geoff Shang
` Keith Watson
0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Dawes, Stephen @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi all
Can any tell me where the /dev/audioctl device is created from? I am
asking because I believe it to be what is causing my problem with
speakfreely. My problem with speakfreely is that sfmike will not
initialize. When I compare my set up to other set-ups, the difference
that I can see right of the top is that I am missing the /dev/audioctl
device.
Now, I know that there is an incentive for no one to answer this
question. That being that as long as I don't have the answer, you won't
find me on the reflector. So you decide how to proceed with this one.
Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
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* Re: Speakfreely problem:
Speakfreely problem: Dawes, Stephen
@ ` Geoff Shang
` Erik Heil
` Keith Watson
1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Geoff Shang @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi Steve:
I've never heard of the /dev/audioctl device, and I don't have one. Do you
have /dev/audio?
On a somewhat related note. I'm running devfs on this box. My
understanding was that devfs was meant to just work, but ALSA doesn't seem
to create the appropriate device files. I have to run the snd_devices
script in the driver source tree before I can play any audio. Loading the
ALSA modules does initiate the mixer, however.
Anyone got this setup working and willing to share their configs?
Geoff.
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` Geoff Shang
@ ` Erik Heil
` Geoff Shang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Erik Heil @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi, jeff. Isn't /dev/audio usually on Solaris and Sun workstations if
memory serves me correctly? I've never seen such devices on Linux-based
machines.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@uq.net.au>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Speakfreely problem:
> Hi Steve:
>
> I've never heard of the /dev/audioctl device, and I don't have one. Do
you
> have /dev/audio?
>
> On a somewhat related note. I'm running devfs on this box. My
> understanding was that devfs was meant to just work, but ALSA doesn't seem
> to create the appropriate device files. I have to run the snd_devices
> script in the driver source tree before I can play any audio. Loading the
> ALSA modules does initiate the mixer, however.
>
> Anyone got this setup working and willing to share their configs?
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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` Erik Heil
@ ` Geoff Shang
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Geoff Shang @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Erik Heil, Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi:
Yeah, /dev/audio is mainly found on Sun machines. The presence of it in
Linux is to provide emulation for the Sun /dev/audio device for programs
that need it ... like speak freely. Note that you can make Speak Freely
use /dev/dsp by uncommenting the -dneeded_liniar define in the makefile.
This also works for getting around buggy implementations of /dev/audio
(notably in some OSS drivers).
Geoff.
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* Re: Speakfreely problem:
Speakfreely problem: Dawes, Stephen
` Geoff Shang
@ ` Keith Watson
1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Keith Watson @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hmmmmm, Not a bad thought....
On 01:39 PM, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can any tell me where the /dev/audioctl device is created from? I am
> asking because I believe it to be what is causing my problem with
> speakfreely. My problem with speakfreely is that sfmike will not
> initialize. When I compare my set up to other set-ups, the difference
> that I can see right of the top is that I am missing the /dev/audioctl
> device.
>
> Now, I know that there is an incentive for no one to answer this
> question. That being that as long as I don't have the answer, you won't
> find me on the reflector. So you decide how to proceed with this one.
>
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
>
>
>
> NOTICE::
> This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of Calgary thanks you for your attention and cooperation.
>
>
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* RE: Speakfreely problem:
@ Dawes, Stephen
` Geoff Shang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Dawes, Stephen @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Will give that a try Geoff, and thanks for the pointer?
How well does sf work with dsp?.
Does using dsp mean that speakfreely is using a pure alsa implementation
and not some emulation of oss.
Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
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* RE: Speakfreely problem:
Dawes, Stephen
@ ` Geoff Shang
` Shaun Oliver
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Geoff Shang @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi:
Nah, either way it's using OSS. The version from speakup CVS has (or at
least had) some experimental ALSA code in it, but I don't know how
satisfactory it ever became. I think you can compile it again by tweeking
the Makefile. Jim or Kirk would know more about this, but the fact that
it's not been touched in a long time would suggest to me that it's probably
not in much of a state.
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` Geoff Shang
@ ` Shaun Oliver
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
I'm thinking,
you can use alsa with it but, if your alsa headers ain't where
speakfreely goes looking for them, you're likely to get some errors. and
it won't build.
just stick with the stock standard Makefile for now unless you have a
real need to alter it.
but be sure you know what you're breaking first.
hth
at the risk of being helpful, Geoff Shang delivered up the
following on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 02:11:37AM +1000,
> Hi:
>
> Nah, either way it's using OSS. The version from speakup CVS has (or at
> least had) some experimental ALSA code in it, but I don't know how
> satisfactory it ever became. I think you can compile it again by tweeking
> the Makefile. Jim or Kirk would know more about this, but the fact that
> it's not been touched in a long time would suggest to me that it's probably
> not in much of a state.
>
>
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