test ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:25 AM Subject: Re: Possibly Related to Keypad Issue > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This reminds me of a problem I had some while back when I had some > interrupt conflicts on my '486 with IDE controlers. Be sure you > aren't getting any messages that say something like, "Loss of > interrupt streaming" or something to that effect. I also ran into > some extreme sluggishnes recently when I started getting some strange > communication errors with my hard drive but then that mess was > accompanied with a bunch of I/O errors and having to re-tune my file > system amazingly, I didn't lose a single file during that crisis. > Since then, I haven't had any more problems. But I digressed; it > sounds like some kind of hardware issue to me. When you press a key, > you cause speakup to send a "shut up" command to the synth. I don't > remember what kind of synth you're using but if it is serial by > chance, there could be some possible collision on the serial line. Be > sure and verify your communications parameters on your synth; I > believe Speakup uses hardware handshaking in all synths except for the > old Dectalk. > > HTH. > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0700, Zachary wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been a bit more successful in attempting to use the unresponsive > > keypad. Not much, not enough to work, but a bit. > > I have noticed the following message, which I suspect may have something to > > do with the problem, being sent to my Dectalk Express on /dev/ser0: > > Timeout Flush > > Possibly this is related to the distribution itself, not the problem. I > > don't know, at this point I just want something that works. > > Basically what happens is that when I boot up an installation cd, the > > program speaks fine. Reads all kernel messages, etc. > > However, I press a key, any key, and things fall apart. The keypad and > > entire keyboard becomes sluggish, unusably so. I cannot do anything and > > expect a response. The speakup program seems to be extremely slow. It > > acknowledges every action, eventually. But it takes it's time about it. > > Any help is greatly appreciated, > > Zack > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBhyhXWSjv55S0LfERAhpWAJ9K0T5lTGtW0cGmd7/fGlAp+olnawCdGOH5 > ETnTpkcKaRkoUma8Asr8Rw0= > =R/vC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
