[kde-freebsd] trouble with KDE text-to-speech apps

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:08:02PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> 	Before  I upgraded to the new xorg (7.2), I had managed to get
> 	the KDE speech apps working.  No longer. Following is what's in
> 	/boot/loader.conf and what stsctl shows.  
> 
> 
> 	p3 11:57 <tao2> [469] more loader.conf
> sound_load="YES"                 # Digital sound subsystem
> snd_driver_load="YES"            # All sound drivers
> hw.snd.maxautovchans=4
> hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4
> 
> 	p3 11:54 <tao2> [464] sysctl -a | grep vchans
> hw.snd.maxautovchans: 4
> hw.snd.pcm0.vchans: 1
> 
> 	Setting "hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4" makes no difference. Still no speech.
> 	But running xmms against an mp3 file does work.   I'm out of
> 	ideas.  Any suggestions on whatmight be the problem?
> 

		Well, guys, I figured out what it was.  Somehow, 
		/usr/local/bin/festival was missing.   I found it listed 
		in my /var package database and thought it might be  a 
		library.  Nope.  Then I checked in my ~/.kde tree and saw
		that festival was indeed a binary (/bin/sh script?).
		I've re portupgraded -aP at leat twice, so then rebuilt
		festival by hand.  So tts stuff is back.

		BTW, altho I do not think this is KDE-specific, I'm
		probably not the only  person to have had binaries 
		up and *vanish*.  --This is one reason I like the CLI;
		but I'm not going there... .

		gary


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