[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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