Sounds like a hardware problem to me even though it happens on both machines (I'm assuming this is the case). I've got a doubletalk pc here with slackware 8.0 and kernel 2.4.17 and latest cvs speakup, and never experienced this during long reading sesions. Greg On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:57:47PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote: > Hi list. > I have been having this little problem with speakup or something for > some time now, but I wasn't sure if it was a memory problem or what. > I am using a doubletalk PC on both my machines which are both running > Slackware 8.0 with kernel 2.4.5. If I have speakup read a long > passage of text, it will eventually choke, that is, the synthesizer > will not respond to ctrl or anything to silence it, and when it > finally does go silent, everything is frozen and I have to do an > ungraceful reboot. > I usually run Speakup with key_echo set to 0 since that's the way I > like it, but I'm not even sure that Speakup is causing the problem. > Any ideas would be helpful since there are times when I can't silence > the speech in time and I don't know enough Linux to look at what to > check. > thanks. > > > Dan Murphy > mailto:mweeby at nycap.rr.com > http://home.nycap.rr.com/mweeby > Let us not look back in anger or forward > in fear, but around us in awareness. > -- James Thurber > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
