Problem with 6.5rc1

[Halim Sahin]

Hi,
On Mi, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:36:01 +0100, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> 
> At last I was able to start SD as a SD user. spd-say works. However,
> logging in as lrs, and doing mplayer url, still gives:
> 
> [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:831:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to
> create IPC semaphore
> [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Permission denied
 
Try to start several mplayers without starting sd and check if that
works on your machine.
Afaik the problem you mentioned is a alsa configuration problem.
Have a look to 
/usr/share/alsa/cards
If you can find the problem copy the file to /etc/asound.conf.

I had the same here while trying the pulseaudio stuff with my onboard
soundcard. 
onfigurings such alsa thing is not easy and I did not want to spent more
time for this because I have a sblive soundcard wich works fine for me.

Good luck.
Halim


> Output of ls -al /dev/audio, no gives
> 
> crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root audio 14, 4 2007-11-28 11:11 /dev/audio
> 
> I don't want to run mplayer with sudo...
> 
> BTW: I get an error message when starting the script:
> 
> Starting speech-dispatcher: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to
> the console. The startup script now looks like:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> . /etc/init.d/functions
> 
> test -x /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher || exit 0
> 
> RETVAL=0
> prog="speech-dispatcher"
> 
> start() {
>         echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
>       daemon --user speech-dispatcher --pidfile 
> /var/run/speech-dispatcher/sd.pid /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher -P 
> /var/run/speech-dispatcher/spd.pid
>       RETVAL=$?
>       [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/speech-dispatcher
>       echo
> }
> ...
> 
> Lars
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Halim Sahin
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