Re: Puzzled by Permissions

[Nath <nath.ml@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hesco@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Hello folks:  
>
> I built an emacspeak machine for my friend Adam over a year ago, now.  When our group
> opened our office, we brought his machine into the office so he could function here.
> I've always wanted to build another machine which could serve his needs here at the
> office so he could take his own machine back home with him.  I'm now in the process of
> doing so.  
>
> On invoking emacpseak, I'm getting that ubiquitous "Process speaker not running" error.  
>
> As root, I can successfully use esdplay to play a .wav file, and flite to synthesize a
> text file.  
>
> As a normal user, however, using esdplay I get:  
> /dev/dsp: Permission denied 
>
> and when using flite, I get:  
> oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp 
>
> However, my hesco user is a member of the audio group, which has write permissions on
> the /dev/dsp device.  
>
> hesco@xxxxxxxxxxx:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp 
> crw-rw-r--    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14  2002 /dev/dsp 
> hesco@xxxxxxxxxxx:~$ cat /etc/group | grep audio 
> audio:x:29:ashapiro,hesco 
>
> I manually adjusted the permissions on /dev/dsp to match the ones on Adam's working
> machine.  It was 640.  I changed it to 664.  
>
> I'm wondering what I'm missing here.  All clues are appreciated.  
>
Just a little idea : Perhaps the esd sound server is running when you
try to launch emacspeak as a normal user ? If so, try to stop the esd
sound server and to retry launching emacspeak after ? Tell us if
something has changed ?

> -- Hugh Esco 
> hesco@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> 404-806-0480 
>
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Nath

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