Ok, great. This is exactly what I came across somewhere. However, I was under the impression that *trashing* the synth meant to actually break it, like perhaps destroying the firmware. I was just concerned about killing this synth, especially since its a borrowed one. -- Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 1:12 PM Subject: Re: festival > Hi. > > There is a bug that can trash your hardware synth on com 1, but it should > only be a problem once. It only happens when you first set up > Gnopernicus for a new user. > > Basically: when you select "enable screen reader" in the assistive > technology dialog in desktop preferences, the defaults for Gnopernicus > will be switched to ones that include a braille display connected to com > 1. Just go into the startup preferences dialog of Gnopernicus and > disable braille support to get Gnopernicus to stop messing with the com > port. After you do this, you can switch to a text console and get the > synth back. > To get the synth back, just change the speakup default to none, power > cycle the synth, and then return the speakup default to the hardware > synth. > > The bug has been reported, and it should be fixed "soon". Like I said, > it only happens when you first set up Gnopernicus, it won't happen again > and it won't happen on a system that just runs Gnome without > Gnopernicus. > > Hope this helps. > Kenny > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:57:12PM -0800, jim grimsby wrote: >> Hi, no >> The problem is when you run gnome whith the screen reader for gnome both >> of >> them as far as I know it kills your speech device because it only >> understands that a Braille display is on the serial port. Hth >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >> On Behalf Of Kyrath. (AKA Rob) >> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:21 AM >> To: Speakup >> Subject: festival >> >> >> In the course of reading various documentation, I came across a warning >> that >> compiling festival, or perhaps some other program that requires festival, >> can potentially kill a hardware synth. >> >> Is this a true risk? >> I'm looking to compile festival on a slackware 10.1 system with a >> doubletalk >> synth. >> >> -- Rob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
