[Xastir] Festival Problem

[Neil Morris]

On Saturday 17 April 2004 22:05, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 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.
>
> 
cnmorris at aldebaran:~> ls -al /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 2004-04-13 16:28 /dev/dsp -> dsp0
cnmorris at aldebaran:~> ls -al /dev/dsp0
crw-------    1 cnmorris audio     14,   3 2003-09-23 18:59 /dev/dsp0
cnmorris at aldebaran:~>

Aha. So what do I do now? Sorry about the dumb questions - I've been away from 
Linux for a looong time..

Neil
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