A question about Fenrir on Arch linux

Tue May 18 16:52:14 UTC 2021

Hi there,

Do I necessarily have to have pulseaudio? can't I manage with pipewire?

I ran the scripts, and i did hear fenrir's startup sound icon, but only 
when running Fenrir as current user, not as root, even after running the 
script you suggested.

Thanks again.

Best regards.

Francisco.

On 5/18/21 5:06 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> do you have the requirements for the generic sound / voice drivers 
> installed?
> To get sure, reinstall it execute:
> sudo pacman -S sox espeak-ng xclip
>
> sox is used for play sound, espeak for voice output in the default 
> configuration, xclip is a funny toy to let fenrir share the clipboard 
> between your GUI and Terminal.
>
> start fenrir for testing in foreground - you can stop it using CTRL + C
> sudo fenrir
>
> did you hear the startup sound? fenrir plays a little soundicon at 
> startup.
>
> if not, then pulseaudio is not configured.
> short story execute:
> # configure user
> /usr/share/fenrirscreenreader/tools/configure_pulse.sh
> # configure root
> sudo /usr/share/fenrirscreenreader/tools/configure_pulse.sh
>
> # need to restart that the configuration for both get active
>
> restart
>
> then retry
>
> sudo fenrir
>
> long storry: fenrir needs by default to run as root to collect the 
> data on your screen or caputre the input devices. if fenrir speaks or 
> creates sound, it does this as root user. you wont hear sound of an 
> other user by pulseaudio (sound server) design. We need to transport 
> the sound created as root to the sound server you have running as user 
> to finally hear the sound.
>
> fenrir provides 2 scripts (see above) to configure the root puse audio 
> to send the data to your user and configure user pulse audio to listen 
> to the sound sent by root and play it.
>
> cheers chrys
>
>
> 18.05.21 um 14:46 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>>
>> Thanks so much, now, that part of the problem is solved!
>>
>> The other part, how ever, that is not solved, is that fenrir doesn't 
>> speak with espeak, or espeak-ng.
>>
>> Do I have to set something somewhere for that to happen?
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> Francisco.
>>
>> On 5/18/21 10:24 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Howdy Francisco,
>>>
>>> i dont know why those libs are not an dependency by python-pyenchant 
>>> if those are spread warnings. Maybe this should be reported to the 
>>> package maintainer. But anyway.
>>>
>>> you can ask pacman what package contains the specific file you need 
>>> by "sudo pacman -Fy filename". here i did this for for example in 
>>> libvokko.so:
>>>
>>> 10:14 [chrys at blackbeast ~] :) $ sudo pacman -Fy libvoikko.so
>>> [sudo] Passwort für chrys:
>>> :: Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken...
>>>  core 903,5 KiB  6,17 MiB/s 00:00 
>>> [#########################################################################] 
>>> 100%
>>>  extra 9,3 MiB  26,9 MiB/s 00:00 
>>> [#########################################################################] 
>>> 100%
>>>  community 22,8 MiB  29,6 MiB/s 00:01 
>>> [#########################################################################] 
>>> 100%
>>>  multilib 222,5 KiB  12,8 MiB/s 00:00 
>>> [#########################################################################] 
>>> 100%
>>> extra/libvoikko 4.3.1-1
>>>     usr/lib/libvoikko.so
>>> 10:15 [chrys at blackbeast ~] :) $
>>>
>>> so the package you need for libvokko.so is "libvoikko"
>>> to silence out all the warnings do this:
>>> sudo pacman -S libvoikko nuspell hspell
>>>
>>> this install all 3 (IMO optional dependency's, what should not 
>>> create a warning, but well, it is like it is)
>>>
>>> i use irssi as IRC (commandline) client. there is also Pidgin (as 
>>> graphical client). both are very nice.
>>>
>>> looking forward to see you in IRC :).
>>>
>>> cheers chrys
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 18.05.21 um 08:57 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
>>>> Hello there,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I managed to install one of the libraries, but not the other two, 
>>>> so thanks for that.
>>>>
>>>> Also, thanks for suggesting to use yay, I just installed it, I 
>>>> didn't know yaourt was deprecated.
>>>>
>>>> My question now is, and this'll be dum, what are recommended IRC 
>>>> clients? how do I get them working? what should I know before 
>>>> joining an IRC channel, what ever it might be?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards.
>>>>
>>>> Francisco.
>>>>
>>>> On 5/17/21 9:19 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I just posted a link to this message intended to chrys (Fenrir 
>>>>> author) on the #a11y channel of irc.linux-a11y.org.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe join him there?
>>>>>
>>>>> Didier
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 17/05/2021 à 20:15, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just downloaded fenrir-git from the AUR using yaourt.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I try to run fenrir with the command
>>>>>>
>>>>>> fenrir
>>>>>>
>>>>>> in a terminal, how ever, i get fenrir's startup sound, and this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [francisco at Blueblink ~]$ fenrir
>>>>>> ** (process:7008): WARNING **: 20:12:45.374: Error loading 
>>>>>> plugin: libhspell.so.
>>>>>> 0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>>>> ** (process:7008): WARNING **: 20:12:45.374: Error loading 
>>>>>> plugin: libvoikko.so.
>>>>>> 1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>>>> ** (process:7008): WARNING **: 20:12:45.377: Error loading 
>>>>>> plugin: libnuspell.so
>>>>>> .4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas on how to fix it, and no speech either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for any answer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Francisco.
>>>>>>
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