An audio problem

[Jan Buchal]

>>>>> "LB" == Lars Bj?rndal <lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no> writes:

    LB> Jan Buchal <buchal at brailcom.org> writes:
    >>>>>>> "LB" == Lars Bj?rndal <lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no> writes:
    >> 
    LB> Jan Buchal <buchal at brailcom.org> writes:
    >> >>>>>>> "LB" == Lars Bj?rndal <lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no>
    >> writes:
    >> >> 
    LB> Hi! If I as root start speech-dispatcher, then do an mplayer
    LB> command to listen to an audio stream as a regular user, mplayer
    LB> exits with:
    >> >> 
    LB> [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Permission denied
    >> >> 
    LB> If I then, as root, start mplayer, it plays, and subsequent
    LB> starts of the mplayer command as the first regular user again,
    LB> it also works. Is that a known problem?
    >> >> Which soundoutputmetod do you use in your speech-dispatcher >>
    >> configuration. You have check all loaded modules, espeak, flite
    >> >> or festival for example. For good result you need set to alsa
    >> and >> restart the speech-dispatcher.
    >> 
    LB> All modules, e.g. espeak and espeak-generic were already set to
    LB> "alsa", the default value.
    >> 
    >> OK, you have probably one channel sound card, right? Then it can
    >> be dmix problem. Maybe you have a .asoundrc in a home directory
    >> or in global path which can bring some problem. Try move it.

    LB> No, I do not have any .asoundrc files. Please note that I start
    LB> speech-dispatcher as root. I'm able to do mplayer <url> as root
    LB> and listen to the output. However, I'm not able to do mplayer
    LB> <url> from a local user, the local user does not have
    LB> permission. The permission is loosed after speech-dispatcher is
    LB> started. I'm using speech-dispatcher 0.64.

Yes I know about but I don't know where is the problem. A solution is
run speech-dispatcher under speech-dispatcher user. You need acces for
this user /var/run/speech-dispatcher and /var/log/speech-dispatcher .
This model use Debian and works.

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