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Re: Speak-Freely Problems



I am able to get speak-freely version 6.1b-2 to work fine on a mixed
bo/hamm system.  I can't explain your problem but the debian package works
fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a
full-duplex card).

Adam.

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> AFAIK the standard version of speak-freely is compiled with the "DUPLEX"
> option, so it works only with the fully duplex capable hardware<->driver.
> AFAIK most of the drivers available in OSS-Free included into Linux system 
> do not support the full duplex.
> Get the source version of speek-freely package, set the
> DUPLEX= -HALF_DUPLEX 
> in the Makefile, and rebuild the package.
> 
> 					Wojtek Zabolotny
> 					wzab@ipe.pw.edu.pl
> 
> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Luke Bussanmas wrote:
> 
> > I am unable to get Speak-Freely to work on my system.  The sfspeaker
> > program outputs:
> > 
> > opening audio output device: Device or resource busy
> > 
> > Repeated several dozen times after attempting to communicate with an echo
> > server.  I realize this means that /dev/audio is still being controlled by
> > another program, however I don't see a way to fix the problem.
> > 
> > I can also easliy do cat /dev/audio > temp.au; cat temp.au > /dev/audio;
> > and hear what I spoke into the microphone.....
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > 
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