Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:00:10 -0500 From: Charles Green <green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> To: rhh@ct.picker.com Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speak Freely v6.0 on VoxWare/FreeBSD/Linux (was speak-freely-digest V1 #16) Message-ID: <199603261500.KAA25935@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) "Re: Speak Freely v6.0 on VoxWare/FreeBSD/Linux (was speak-freely-digest V1 #16)" (Mar 26, 8:48)
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Can you make a port of Speak Freely for the ports section?
Randall Hopper stands accused of saying:
} Date: Mar 26, 8:48
} Subject: Re: Speak Freely v6.0 on VoxWare/FreeBSD/Linux (was speak-freely-digest V1 #16)
} >The first patch you suggested works fine. the problem with sfspeaker
} >have disappeared.
}
} Glad to hear it!
}
} >>2) As I recall, the other problem I had was caused by the first hack.
} >> soundbyte.c:soundflush's read() was blocking. Commented that out and
} >> wasn't any the worse for it. Seemed to work fine.
} >
} >This second patch I don't really understand. What part do I need to
} >comment out? I'm not an experienced C-programmer, and my confusion is
} >doubled by the fact that I found two declarations for soundflush() in
} >soundbyte.c I tried to exclude the read command in the first
} >soundflush, but without result. I tried a few other things, but I kept
} >the same error.
} >I added soundbyte.c, maybe it can refresh your memory:)
} >The problem I now have are with sfmike:
} >> sfmike echo.fourmilab.ch
} >Space bar switches talk/pause, Esc or "q" to quit
} >Talk: soundflush: Interrupted system call
} >Talk: soundflush: Interrupted system call
} >Talk: soundflush: Interrupted system call
} >Talk: soundflush: Interrupted system call
}
} Yep. Same symptom that caused me to make the second hack. The second
} soundflush is for SGI's, so the first soundflush is the one to modify.
}
} I think the patch I made was to comment out the soundflush code that kicks
} in for Voxware/FreeBSD/Linux.
}
} ...
} > Sound interface for Speak Freely for Unix
} >/* SOUNDFLUSH -- Flush any queued sound. */
} >
} >void soundflush()
} >{
} > char sb[BUFL];
} >#ifndef sun
} > int c;
} >#endif
} >
} >#ifndef sun
}
} #ifdef RHH_REMOVED_THIS_STUFF
}
} > while (TRUE) {
} > c = read(audiof, sb, BUFL < abuf_size ? BUFL : abuf_size);
} > if (c < 0 && errno == EAGAIN)
} > c = 0;
} > if (c < 0)
} > perror("soundflush");
} > if (c <= 0)
} > break;
} > }
}
} #endif
}
} >#else
} ...
}
}
} Hope this helps!
}
} Randall Hopper
} rhh@ct.picker.com
}-- End of excerpt from Randall Hopper
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