Re: Installing probs

[Hans Zoebelein <hzo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a minor problem with the emacspeak startup script:
Header says: #$Id: emacspeak.def,v 8.560 1998/10/11 19:46:58 
This script is included into emacspeak-9.0-2.noarch.rpm

I got an error message at the 'if' loop.

So I changed 
if [ $1 != "-q" ] ; then INIT...
into 
if [ "$"1 != "-q" ] ; then INIT...

And if you are running always the same synthesizer, defining the
DTK_PROGRAM var in the script makes life easier.
I'm running emacspeak with the mbrola server and it runs great.
So I put an 'export DTK_PROGRAM=mbrola' at the beginning of emacspeak.

Hans

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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Tim Cross wrote:

> 
> You actually do have everything you need - either on the RH disks or
> already installed. I'm running emacspeak 9.0 on a stock standard RH
> 5.2 system. All I needed was the emacspeak package which I installed
> from the sources and compiled with emacs 20.3 (the one that comes with RH).
> 
> It is true that emacspeak needs extended tcl (often referred to as
> tclx). However, the extended tcl interpreter is actually called tcl
> (the normal "standard" tcl is tclsh). You need the package
> tclx-8.0.3-20 which is definately on the RH 5.2 (and 5.1) cd. If its
> not on your CD then you probably have a crappy cheap RH copy which
> does not have all the packages. 
> 
> Did you go through the tests that Raman recommends in the emacspeak
> makefile? Were you able to get your synthesizer to speak using
> the dtk-exp (or dtk-mv depending on what you have) command? If this
> does'nt work, then your problem is likely hardware related (bad serial
> cable, port or stty settings). If this works and emacspeak still fails
> to work, check the environment variables to make sure you have them
> set and exported correctly. Also, check that you have write
> permissions to the serial port - on RH systems, normal users usually
> don't have this permission. You normally get the speaker not present
> warning when tcl cannot write to the synthesizer. This can be due to
> bad cableing, serial cards, port setting or access permissions on /dev/ttySX
> On my system (private system where I'm the only user who
> logs in, I changed the group ownership of /dev/ttyS0 to users which
> all login accounts on this system are members of). The default
> configuration under RH gives write access to ttySX to root only. 
> 
> How are you starting emacspeak? Are you starting it via a script, via
> an .emacs init file or via options on the command line?
> 
> I've installed emacs and emacspeak on about 7 different machines
> running linux (Redhat 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2) and apart from
> problems with a broken emacs rpm with 5.0 (or was it 5.1 - can't
> remember now), everything has worked flawlessly everytime, so we
> should be able to get it working for you. I've not used the rpm as I
> prefer to install "extra" packages into my /usr/local tree because it
> makes upgrades and backups easier. 
> 
> T.X
> Whistler writes:
> > 
> > 
> > Ok Ihave now tryed botht he Noarch and the src rpm packages.  On the
> > noarch it seems to install in fact I can even type emacspeak and run up
> > emacs now the problem is it says speaker not present I have the
> > environment set up correctly so I was a t a loss to why it wouldn't work.
> > 
> > So since I was already frustrated I went and got the src.rpm for 9.0 as
> > someone had told me it requires tclx .  I don't have it installed so I
> > went to my redhat disks to find it.  No luck there was no package witht he
> > name tclx* anything.  So where do I go now?
> > 
> > Ken /whsitler
> > 
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