From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1.wpi.edu ([130.215.36.102]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1941rK-00064E-00 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:38 -0400 Received: from mcafee.wpi.edu (mcafee.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.86]) by mail1.WPI.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h3BGwaUe004102 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.wpi.edu(130.215.36.186) by mcafee.wpi.edu via csmap id 2115; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:00:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wpi.WPI.EDU (root@wpi.WPI.EDU [130.215.24.6]) by smtp.WPI.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3BGwaoJ032466 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:36 -0400 Received: from wpi.WPI.EDU (ender3rd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wpi.WPI.EDU (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3BGwZNi032656 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ender3rd@localhost) by wpi.WPI.EDU (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3BGwZCK008417 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wpi.WPI.EDU: ender3rd owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Owen Patrick Smith To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: usrdev driver In-Reply-To: <20030411165018.GA1536@electric> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Yes this is a known problem caused by the fact that cat tries to do more than just read(2) from the usrdev program. We don't know what that thing is but cat will fail to work in all cases because of it. The middleware program just read()'s from the file, checks for shutup characters, and spits out the result. One of these days my partenors or I are going to go through the code to cat and figure out what's going wrong but we haven't gotten to it yet. I'm still trying to get some ideas on what may be going wrong with your copy. The festival server script does run festival --server but with a number of useful setup options some of which I believe are required to get the middleware program to be able to connect to it correctly. HtH Owen On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Michael Curran wrote: > Hi Owen, > > I've done a little more testing and I am now led to believe that it is not > the middleware program that is to blaim, its more the usrdev driver itself. > If I do cat /dev/usrdev I get: > cat: /dev/usrdev: Operation not permitted > Should this happen? > > I've reinstalled it all twice, and I even disabled devfs in the kernel and > that still didn't make a difference. > > Mick >