sound problem

I have sound working fine on FC5, but I'm getting an error with flite.
Flite (festival light) is a text-to-speech synthesizer. I use it
for gtkroadmap - a gps application. I had flite working in FC4,
and I think in FC5 too, till a few udates ago. I just noticed now it's
not working. For instance:


1) root:~> echo "hello" | flite # no permission problem here.
oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp

2) root:~> /sbin/fuser -auv /dev/dsp

USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/dsp:


3) root:~> lsof | grep '/dev/dsp'
4) root:~>


so nothing is using /dev/dsp. Any ideas what's going on? Some stale
lock file in some obscure place?


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