[kde-freebsd] trouble with KDE text-to-speech apps
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Fri Jun 1 03:42:10 CEST 2007
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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