On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:25:41PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > You doing a laptop too? Well that makes the observations even more > similar. I tried several values of sleep with no improvement. One > thing I didnot try is a sleep count between starting of > speech-dispatcher and loading up the speakup synth driver by > initializing /proc/speakup/synth_name; guess that's another area to try:). If you want to experiment with timing issues, please do so. The most logical order is this: 1) load speakup-sftsyn (as this has nothing to do with the next step, loading Speech Dispatcher, but is necessary for speechd-up) 2) load speech-dispatcher (necessary for speechd-up) 3) now you have to ,,wait'' till both speakup-sftsyn and speech-dispatcher are up and running 4) run speechd-up Note that speechd-up should complain (return with an error code) if either speakup-sftsyn or speech-dispatcher is not up and running when it's being started. But there might be a bug somewhere. More info is welcomed. Best Regards, Hynek Hanke