[Xastir] Festival Problem

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:17:06AM +0100, Neil Morris wrote:
> 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..


Type "groups" to see if you belong  to the "audio" group.  If not, and
assuming that your user name is 'cnmorris', as root type: 

"adduser cnmorris audio"

You may have to log out and back in before it will be effective.