Hi: I am Doug Smith. I have just started receiving from the mailing list, and I have been reading about all your apparent troubles with amd dual core systems, the exact one that I want. Here's the problem I have. My wife said that she would buy me a new AMD 64 X 2 dual core and that I could get it in any configuration I wanted. I want to get one, but I am not sure what's going on here, so I will ask a few questions. First of all, are you in a text-based console when speechd-up and speech-dispatcher decide to exit stage left, or is it happening in a graphical environment? Next, are you using the integrated, on-board sound equipment on the amd system, or did you just put a standard sound card in it? The reason I wonder about this is that, each time I go into a store and put my GRML disk into an amd dual core machine, to try to show my wife how this speech works, I get the funniest failure message, and I believe that it has something to do with the kind of sound hardware on the motherboard of the machine. It might be solvable with something like sndconfig, but I don't want to keep holding up a machine that others might be interested in looking at and buying. The message is this: failed writing 128 samples It comes from the swspeak program that drives speakup in this operating system. I will write them tonight, as well, and see if they are aware of it. If you know anything about this, pleast tell me more. Thanks. Doug Smith -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)
