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running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode
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Steve Holmes |
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running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode |
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Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:44:22 -0700 |
Orca doesn't really have anything to do with this - I don't think.
The tricky part here is gdm never really launches a shell so I will
have to probably insert an echo statement in the gdm startup script,
/usr/sbin/gdm and redirect the output to a file. Hum, I think I'll
try that.
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:00:19PM -0400, Trevor Saunders wrote:
> HI,
>
> hmm, that's very interesting, I gues the only the to do is read the orca
> debug log. I't would be nice to conform that the enviroment varaible is
> infact set in the gdm session.
>
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 01:43:07PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Yes, I was doing that. I had gdm working fine when speechd was
> > autospawning and in fact, I have it back to autospawning agin just to
> > be sure. The problem is when I run speech-dispatcher as a system wide
> > service and configure inet_socket, I can't seem to get gdm to be able
> > to access speech dispatcher. What would then happen is Orca would
> > come but it would change to gnome-speech and if I would go into the
> > server settings box and arrow down to what should be speech
> > dispatcher, there are no other choices listed. When I went back to
> > autospawning and removed the environment variable for speechd's port,
> > then restarting gdm brought up Orca but this time, I could change the
> > speech server back to speech dispatcher.
> >
> > Another thing; when I was attempting to use gdm with speech dispatcher
> > as a wide service, no log files were written to
> > /var/lib/gdm/.speech-dispatcher. I don't think a .pid was written
> > either.
>
> yes, you'd have to tell speech dispatcher with a command line option
> where you want logs by hand or in the config file if you don't want them
> to be in $HOME/.speech-dispatcher/log
>
> Trev
>
> >
> > The only reason I started persuing all this was yesterday afternoon, I
> > ran into a situation where I couldn't play any media files due to alsa
> > device being busy or something. I had to kill all instances of
> > speechd before I got it back. I'm now experimenting with libao
> > instead; not sure if that will make much of a difference or not.
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 04:28:06PM -0400, Trevor Saunders wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Have you sanity checked that the orca configuration for gdm is set up to
> > > use speechd by default?
> > >
> > > Trev
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:17:16AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > > Not using inet_sockets? well, that's another area to try. I was under
> > > > the impression that you had to use internet sockets instead. that
> > > > could make things easier if I don't have to try and get this
> > > > environment variable passed to gdm.
> > > >
> > > > To answer your other question, no, I didn't insert that export line in
> > > > the gdm script itself. The script runs /etc/profile which sets some
> > > > basic system wide environment variables and then runs all .sh files in
> > > > /et/profile.d. I stuck another file in /etc/profile.d called
> > > > speechd.sh. That setup works beautifully when I login as any user and
> > > > run spd-say for a test or do startx to run Orca. It's just gdm does
> > > > not seem to be able to launch a connection to speechd. I don't get
> > > > any errors but I don't think it's getting the communication method.
> > > > Not sure what else to look at. When speechd was autospawning in
> > > > session mode, gdm ran it OK. But then I ran into alsa device getting
> > > > locked out and that's why I'm going after this system-wide approach
> > > > again.
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Halim Sahin wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 12:47:43AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > > > > I just tried from a cold boot and inserted the proper environment
> > > > > > variable into a profile that gets read by all programs that startup
> > > > > > on
> > > > > > my Arch Linux system. This gets inherited nicely by normal users at
> > > > > > login and again, startx works fine but gdm for some reason does not
> > > > > > inherit this variable when it runs. I think gdm is the user but it
> > > > > > must run something else that does not inherit these environment
> > > > > > variables.
> > > > >
> > > > > Have you tried exporting the speechd_address in your gdm start skript?
> > > > >
> > > > > Gdm under gentoo is not that version which can be used for creating
> > > > > accessible login afaik.
> > > > > So I can't test it.
> > > > > BTW.: On my machine I use now unix_socket for sd.
> > > > > Sd starts through an init-skript and works with sbl and orca :-) :-)
> > > > > :-).
> > > > >
> > > > > BR.
> > > > > Halim
> > > > >
> > > > >
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- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, (continued)
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Steve Holmes, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Halim Sahin, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Steve Holmes, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Steve Holmes, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Halim Sahin, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Steve Holmes, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Halim Sahin, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Trevor Saunders, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Steve Holmes, 2010/10/09
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Trevor Saunders, 2010/10/09
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- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Steve Holmes, 2010/10/10
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Halim Sahin, 2010/10/10
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- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Halim Sahin, 2010/10/10
- running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode, Trevor Saunders, 2010/10/07
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