-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There's another difference: the laptop is a lot slower. Put a "sleep 1" in your script after launching speech-dispatcher. HTH Chuck On Thu, 6 May 2004, Steve Holmes wrote: > I'm down to a strange pattern on one of my boxes when it comes to > launching Speech Dispatcher, speakup and speechd_up in that order. It > basically comes down to this. dispatcher and speakup are loading > correctly; that is, /proc/speakup/synth_name is properly set to > softsynth. If I do this sequence from any shell script, speechd_up > logs an error about [y being an invalid command or something and I get > no speech. Then if I killall speechd_up and follow that by restarting > speechd_up, I get speech. For whatever reason, speechd_up doesn't > like getting loaded from a script. This is on a desktop machine > running kernel 2.4.25 with ALSA. > > Here's a strange deal though. On my P120 laptop, I do the exact same > sequence and it loads properly every time. The differences are that > the laptop is running OSS drivers and the kernel is 2.4.26. > > Any possible explanation for the difference in behavior? > > I have to say this is working out greate for my laptop. We've come a > long ways! > > -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ------------ Output from gpg ------------ > gpg: Signature made Thu May 6 14:19:22 2004 EDT using DSA key ID 94B42DF1 > gpg: Good signature from "Steve Holmes (HolmesGrown Solutions) <steve at holmesgrown.com>" > gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! > gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. > Primary key fingerprint: 46DB DA38 6DE3 53F1 0CC8 D315 5928 EFE7 94B4 2DF1 > > - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (94% of Full) My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQJq9PzVdG8M9x9tGAQKmdwP+JI9b2/IIagYE0P13KS4Mhx2Z5FglQLXI HUQbdj+Vucv+K/L9w4aqFeBPCpwCkSp0umASKqHnKJMqk43L+WFTxPHTtDCollUT FO4GHdJPReypJluiIc+CbXJH82PtNhvYTw8z7LDBV5oKhtOTZpvzQSoN6bRzfUCD hvUw1heax/Y= =xT6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----