[Xastir] Festival Problem

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:27:18PM +0100, Neil Morris wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2004 21:19, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:06:48PM +0100, Neil Morris wrote:
> > > I'm running 1.3.2 on SuSE 9.0, using KDE.
> > >
> > > I start festival with the '--server &' argument. If I then start Xastir
> > > from a terminal I see the server accept the connection but every time
> > > xastir receives a station there is no sound and 'Linux: can't open
> > > /dev/dsp' appears in the terminal. Any ideas?
> >
> > Permissions for /dev/dsp?
> >
> > Bob, N7XY
> > 
> 
> Dunno... tell me more. It's a fresh installation and I haven't fiddled with 
> anything.

What does ls -al '/dev/dsp' show?  If it a symbolic link, what does 'ls
-al' on the target show?

In my case:

$ ls -al /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Feb 19 09:24 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0

$ ls -al /dev/dsp0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Feb 19 09:24 /dev/dsp0

In that case, it shows that one must belong to group "audio" in order
to access /dev/dsp.