Re: Problem with gnome-speech in FC4?

[Fernando Herrera <fherrera gmail com>]

Hi, I sent a patch for festival fixing this "localhost" detection
problem two days ago. It's been committed and should be included in
the next beta release (1.96). Now it's time to poke Fedora guys to
make a new release.

Salu2

On 8/3/05, Al Puzzuoli <alpuzz comcast net> wrote:
> Hello,
> Just a follow up to my previous post.  The problem is apparently related to
> the /etc/hosts file.  During FC4 install, I chose to manually assign a
> hostname to my system.  my machine's host name is Systemax.  However, the
> only way so far that I have gotten gnome-speech to work is by removing
> references to systemax in the host file, so my /etc/hosts now contains the
> following line:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.localdomain
> This resolves my Gnome-speech issues; However now, I keep seeing an error
> stating that my hosts file is incorrectly configured and that some gnome
> applications might not work properly.
> So, assuming I want my machine's hostname to be "systemax", how should I be
> setting up my /etc/hosts?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any info,
> 
> --Al
> 
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Puzzuoli" <
> alpuzz comcast net>
> 
> To: "Gnome Accessibility List" <
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> 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 8:54 PM
> Subject: Problem with gnome-speech in FC4?
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have recently done clean installs of FC4 on two separate systems and on
> > both I am experiencing issues with Gnome-speech and Festival.  Details are
> > as follows:
> >
> > I know that Festival itself works because I can activate it using brltty
> > and when I do so, I hear speech.   I believe sound support is set up
> > properly in gnome as well because I hear the test sound during firstboot.
> >
> > I have run tests using the version of Gnome-speech that installs with FC4
> > as well as whichever version is in CVS as of august 2.
> >
> > With the install version, test-speech can activate the Festival driver and
> > seemingly runs all the tests; However it does so in complete silence.  If
> > I run Gnopernicus, I get the same result-- Gnopernicus runs and shows that
> > speech is enabled but again in reality, there is no speech.
> > I have also checked out gnome-speech from CVS and built it using
> > "./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr"  However after installing this version,
> > things seem to get worse.  Test-speech completely freezes when it attempts
> > to activate the Festival driver and I am forced to break out with
> > control+c.
> >
> > If anyone has thoughts on how to troubleshoot this further, they would be
> > much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > --Al
> >
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