From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id B879E380BCA; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:13:33 -0400 (EDT) Authentication-Results: befuddled.reisers.ca; dkim=fail reason="key not found in DNS" header.d=rednote.net header.i=@rednote.net header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=dkim header.b=oyhh/h5+; dkim-atps=neutral Received: from mail.rednote.net (opera.rednote.net [66.228.34.147]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93430380A1C for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:13:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.rednote.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E266CFA268; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:13:32 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rednote.net; s=dkim; t=1629551612; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=ZDhSOO2GQtbGN8dRhyocA5VVE3MszhDRjQONiLBOTUg=; b=oyhh/h5+KnjeGRHLN6Y2YvBa6jXYpWEVM++QGMVBAOCudLpNQvnMPIuK3+IWdymPZE5Juq Q3h+Qe8VKfsaSCP2n2veyTjv+AY4d7YBa9zbUdb9pY4kdHaDoeP/2L2iPZnspXxyUadDiZ npgK1jJfNtfixV0lRmM5OfalwY0xBIg= DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.rednote.net E266CFA268 Authentication-Results: mail.rednote.net; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=rednote.net Authentication-Results: mail.rednote.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=rednote.net Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.16.1/8.16.1/Submit) id 17LDDWnP038159; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:13:32 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:13:32 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: Samuel Thibault Cc: Alexander Epaneshnikov , Kelly Prescott , speakup@linux-speakup.org, Alexander Epaneshnikov Subject: Re: Archlinux Speakup problems after alsa package upgrade Message-ID: References: <6b4b229d-5e00-22e4-8cf2-33ed7bbd6b93@gmail.com> <20210819205617.l76b7fxume3lrf67@begin> <20210820152606.r5nznst2t5532th3@alex-pc> <20210820155212.rlj4addvh726cgbb@begin> <20210821121814.vbyw4vxysowqf7as@begin> <20210821125234.onaxd4ccrrh5oiyq@begin> X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20210821125234.onaxd4ccrrh5oiyq@begin> X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 5.13.12-200.fc34.x86_64 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.5 Running as root outputs nothing, but the permissions on /dev/softsynth are the same as with older versions of espeakup, alsa-lib, etc: crw------- 1 root root 10, 122 Aug 21 08:29 /dev/softsynth That's the same as on my other Linux box where the following works just fine: janina@concerto 09:11:08 ~$yay -Q alsa-lib pcaudiolib espeak-ng espeakup alsa-lib 1.2.4-3 pcaudiolib 1.2-2 espeak-ng 1.50-4 espeakup 0.80-3 I believe I have the same permissions: root@concerto 09:12:26 dev#ls -l /dev/softsynth crw------- 1 root root 10, 122 Aug 21 08:29 /dev/softsynth Samuel Thibault writes: > Janina Sajka, le sam. 21 août 2021 08:49:12 -0400, a ecrit: > > espeakup -d gives me: > > > > Unable to open the softsynth device: Permission denied > > It needs to be run as root, or change the permissions on /dev/softsynth > to be able to run it as non-root. > > Samuel -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa