You could pipe the output of ps to a file? Chris Norman <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:18 PM Subject: Re: Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason > Keith Hinton p??e v P? 22. 12. 2006 v 22:04 -0700: >> Sometimes, with software speech, I will be typing or whatever, and all of >> a sudden, (for no particular reason) >> that I can find, the speech will suddenly "die." So, I'll normally have >> to re-launch speechd-up. >> Either that, or sometimes re-launch speech-dispatcher. > > That will most likely be due to a crash of some of the component. Could > you, please, after the situation happens, run > ps -a | grep speech > so that we can see whether speech-dispatcher and speechd-up is running > or not (and so where is the problem). > > I understand this is difficult given you have no output from the > computer. But hopefully you will be able to run the command, then > restart speech and inspect the output later. > > There is a known bug in the current distribution of Speech Dispatcher > which has been fixed in CVS. We will shortly be making a new bugfix > release. Maybe it is this problem. > >> I'm using espeak as the software synthesizer, and I've seriously tweeked >> a few lines in spech-dispatcher, so that espeak is as responsive as ever. >> And, for the most part it works fine. What interests me is this >> speech-loss issue. > > I'd be very interested in those changes. Maybe they could help other > users too. > > With regards, > Hynek > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
