[clug] Text to speech

Simon Burton simon at arrowtheory.com
Tue Dec 9 21:55:53 GMT 2003


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:34:17 +1100 (EST)
Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Simon Burton wrote:
> 
> > you're not running esd/arts sound daemons?
> > check in /proc that nothing else has grabbed /dev/dspXX
> 
> I don't get an error when the app tries to access /dev/dsp though (I did 
> on a different kernel without OSS). Shouldn't I if that's the case?

Well, open(2) will block by default if something else has /dev/dsp. It could be a sound daemon:
try this when running X:
$ find /proc | grep fd | xargs ls -l | grep dsp

Simon.

> 
> Anyways, it works without X running, so at least I now have something to 
> dig into.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mikal
> 
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