Bug 86183

Summary:	cannot use speach with emacspeak after I reboot my computer.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Levi C. Campbell <levicc00123>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	William Hubbs <williamh>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Levi C. Campbell 2005-03-21 14:33:32 UTC

I've got a Compaq Persario X1000 laptop and I'm using emacspeak with the eflite speech engine and it worked just fine the first time I ran it but after I booted it back up after my afternoon classes, my speech doesn't work and the only way I've found to restore speech is to either re-emerge eflite or re-run alsaconf and I can get speech working again. I've got chmod 770 /dev/dsp* to run in /etc/conf.d/local.start and I've also tried changing the group of any file having to do with either emacspeak or eflite to audio but that did no good.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge emacs emacspeak eflite alsa-headers alsa-utils
2. echo "export DTK_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/eflite" > /etc/emacspeak.conf
3. run alsaconf and configure sound card.
4. run emacspeak to make sure speech works
5. reboot computer and run emacspeak
Actual Results:  
speech no longer works at all.

Expected Results:  
emacspeak should have given speech output through eflite.

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2005-07-11 16:10:02 UTC

I have put emacspeak 22 into portage.  Please execute the following commands then try this again and let me know if the problem still occurrs.
 All of this has to be done as root.
 
 echo app-accessibility/emacspeak ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
 emerge -Du emacspeak
 
 Once you have the new version, please comment in this bug and let me know if t    the problem re-occurrs.

Comment 2 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2005-09-07 14:55:28 UTC

I found that we did not have the latest version of eflite in portage; that has 
been resolved.  To install it, enter these commands as root:

echo app-accessibility/eflite ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge eflite

It is important also to update the /etc/eflite/es.conf file using etc-update 
when the package is merged.

Once this is done, you should not have this issue.  If it continues, let me 
know and I will re-open this bug.