Problem with eflite, emacspeak, and Debian

["Shawn Donaldson" <sdonaldson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello list,

 

I have successfully installed EmacSpeak and ViaVoice previously on an RH system, but I am currently experiencing problems getting Emacspeak and eflite working properly on a Libranet 2.7 (Debian based) system.  I am new to Debian, and would appreciate any direction and/or hints towards resolving this problem.  Doubtless, I'm just not looking in the right places, as I haven't been able to find much current documentation for Debian and Emacspeak.

 

I set my sources.list file to point to "testing", and then ran the following:

  apt-get install flite

  apt-get install flite-dev

  apt-get install eflite

  apt-get install emacspeak

  apt-get install emacspeak-ss

 

I set DTK_PORT=/dev/audio, and ensured that permissions were set to allow access to the sound device.

 

after starting emacspeak, I get the familiar "Precess Speaker Not Running" error.  After trying to type something, the following msg pops up in the main edit area:

I810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?

I810_audio: dma overrun on write

I810_audio: CIV 12, LVI 10, hwptr c00, count -240

I810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?

 

The sound device works fine with other applications.

 

Thanks in advance for any direction