On 03/14/11 21:00, Ermenegildo Beltrame wrote:
Hi!
> Google didn't show any hits for this issue with respect to SCID in
> particular so I thought I'd report it. SCID relies on snack for
> announcing moves. Snack has been maintained to varying degrees on
> different distributions, there is a catch {} around the actual move
> announcement call so it was silently failing for me on ubuntu.
> Apparently snack now needs to be compiled with ALSA support enabled
> (which Ubuntu doesn't do) or it will complain about the absence of
> /dev/sound/dsp.
On debian there're two snack-libs that are mutually exclusive:
libsnack2
libsnack2-alsa
I fancy it's the same on Ubunutu. Adding libsnack2-alsa works for me
(Debian 6 stable), should do on the same way on Ubuntu.
> The "speak" script from crafty was initially a quick workaround but it
> doesn't make blocking calls to esdplay so sounds aren't always clear.
Right. It is a quick hack, you may also note that it even used aplay in
some of it's incarnations. When I did that one there were quite some
different things how to do sound on Linux, esd being one of the more
standardised back then later alsa.
> I tried out the move announcement feature in SCID today because I like
> to walk through master's games on a physical board and I find it
> distracting to move my eyes back and forth from the board to a sheet
> with the list of moves. Grandmasters frequently resign many moves
> before checkmate and it is a bit unsettling to simply have it stop
> announcing moves so after having familiarized myself with SCID a
> little bit to diagnose the aforementioned problem I added a "black
> resigns", "white resigns", "draw" feature. I didn't add the
> localization field for quite every language because I wasn't convinced
> that a patch would be accepted. The patch for this can be found here:
> http://pastebin.com/GTLFby3c One will obviously need additional .wav
> files - I just recorded it myself.
I'll add your patch as a suggestion and check it out. :)
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