Re: portaudio2/device busy?

[Tamas Hegedus <hegedus@med.unc.edu>]

Hi,

I stopped pulseaudio.
BTW: This did not work "/etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop"
I had to use 'kill'.

And 'espeaks' works!

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Could you see my other thread - problem with my
other computer's sound system.
"Re: sound card not detected"
   You seem an audio expert!
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Thanks a lot!
tamas


Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 24 January 2009 07:06, Tamas Hegedus wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to use espeak (text to voice application).
> > I got error the error messages below.
> >
> > It was reported that several years ago it was a segmentation fault of
> > portaudio19 (segmentation fault if device is busy; espeak uses
> > libportaudio2). Later on the same messages are emitted I get. But I can
> > not find any solution for this (I goggled). Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > tamas
> >
> > espeak "this is a test"
> > Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in
> > 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 924
> > Expression 'ValidateParameters( outputParameters, hostApi,
> > StreamDirection_Out )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c',
> > line: 1142
> > Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in
> > 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 924
> > Expression 'ValidateParameters( outputParameters, hostApi,
> > StreamDirection_Out )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c',
> > line: 1142
> > wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
> > wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
> > wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
> > wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
> > wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
> > wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
>
> Hi Tamas.
>
> I've just installed espeak on my Lenny install, and it plays the "this is a 
> test" with no problems. Mind you the sound card on the machine that Lenny's 
> installed on, is an audigy2 soundblaster, which is capable of playing 
> multiple audio streams.
>
> Which sound card do you have? cat /proc/asound/cards should give enough of an 
> indication.
>
> If you're using Gnome, it may be worth shutting down ESD in Gnomes sound 
> settings, or if using KDE, like me, shut down the aRts sound server, then try 
> the espeak test line again. It could be that portaudio is having a problem, 
> if another soundserver is running, and with a card not capable of playing 
> multiple audio streams.
>
> I've also just installed it on another machine with an hda intel card, on both 
> Etch, with the aRts soundserver running on KDE, and Kubuntu Intrepid, and 
> both play the test ok.
>
> Which kernel are you using on Lenny? uname -r
> Which alsa driver version? cat /proc/asound/version
>
> Anything else using the sound when you run the espeak test, which may be 
> stopping you hearing sound?
> lsof -n | grep /dev/dsp
> lsof | grep /dev/snd
>
> Did you install espeak, and it's deps from the Lenny repo, or from a source 
> tarball?
>
> I assume that the sounds are working, apart from espeak.
>
> You no doubt are, but verify you are a member of /etc/group/audio, if there 
> are general sound problems as user.
>
> Can't think of much else at the moment.
>
> Nigel.