I have a tripletalk at work and a doubletalk at home. I've been getting a message when i initialize them that says "timeout waiting for input". I believe I get 1 per second for 60 seconds and then the synthesizer begins working. Anybody know what causes this? At first I thought it was only with the tripletalk. then I thought it was because I had a gettiy on the serial port. I'm pretty sure it's none of those things. I've observed it on a bunch of different machines some of which have the kernel from Shane at debian and some have a kernel I compiled myself. It's not a deal killer. Waiting 60 seconds for the screen reader to start up is a pain. And it's a bit embarrassing if my boss is looking over my shoulder. But my main problem is that I think whatever is wrong is also causing emacspeak to not work with the external synthes. I must have something misconfigured on all of these machines. They'd have similar configurations because i've configured them all myself and so I figure I'm consistently making the same mistake again and again. -- John Heim 263-4189 / jheim at math.wisc.edu / http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/
