[lojban-beginners] Re: Now what?

[mls1@rice.edu]

I can't get the pronunciation one to make the sounds in the Windows version. The
text comes up fine, though.

Quoting "Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones" <eyeonus@gmail.com>:

> I have both python and pygame installed already- I checked that before I
> downloaded the program. The program seems to run, but I can only get one of
> the 'levels' to load, and it searches for *.wav files when I press 'hear',
> but I downloaded the *.ogg ones.
>
> Also, "Lojban Pronunciation.txt" (level 0) causes fatal error.
>
> Here's the output of a sample run, first running level 0 (pronunciation),
> then level 1:
> ____________________________________________________
> eyeonus@panther:/home/Shared/lojban$ python parallel03.py
> open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "parallel03.py", line 373, in ?
>     main()
>   File "parallel03.py", line 269, in main
>     storage,level=store()
>   File "parallel03.py", line 231, in store
>     if el[1]=="+":
> IndexError: string index out of range
> eyeonus@panther:/home/Shared/lojban$ python parallel03.py
> open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory
> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> File not found: 'Lojban_001/0001.wav'
> Failed to open Lojban_001/0001.wav
> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> File not found: 'Lojban_001/0002.wav'
> Failed to open Lojban_001/0002.wav
>
>
> On 4/17/07, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Here's what you should check that you have installed --
> > python -- probably need version 2.5 or so
> > pygame library for python -- this gives you graphics, or in this case
> > colored text
> >
> > Then check if you have a command called realplay. If not, edit
> parellel.pyand change it to a command that will play a sound file as an
> argument given
> > to it on the command line. Without this, you get no sound. It might cause a
> > fatal error too.
> >
> > Judging from some other python learning tools (like LearnFast) it is
> > possible to use pygame's mixer to play the sound files as well, but I'm not
> > sure (a) how to do it or (b) how to adjust the part of parellel.py that
> > makes it wait until the sound finished.
> >
> > mu'o mi'e .aleks.
> >
> > On Apr 17, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Jon Top Hat Jones wrote:
> >
> > Linux version, running on Ubuntu Linux 6.10 LTS.
> >
> > On 4/17/07, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Jon Top Hat Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > > [li'o] Speaking of which, I can't get Parallel to work.
> > > >
> > > > mu'o mi'e .topy'at.
> > > >
> > > > Come to the Dot Side!
> > >
> > > Are you using the Windows or Linux version? The Windows version
> > > worked straight away after I un-zipped it for me. The Linux (python
> > > with pyGame) worked on my Mac, but took some tweaking since I don't
> > > have realplay installed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -Jon
>
> mu'o mi'e .topy'at.
>
> Come to the Dot Side!
>