-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi Adam. That seems to be specific to Slackware, since I have run Hald on my DIY-based laptop, and it co-exists with Speakup just fine. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 08:27:47PM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote: > Hi. I just wanted to make anybody who uses Slackware, and is planning to > upgrade to Slackware 12.2 aware of a nasty conflict between Speakup and the > HAL daemon (AKA hald.) > > After I installed Slackware 12.2, and rebooted, Speakup came up with > incredibly slow response times! It took up to 5 seconds to respond to any > key press. This is with a Dectalk USB in serial mode, so it emulates a > Dectalk Express. Since this did not happen on the install CD, I did some > tests, and eventually found out that this didn't happen if I removed the > execute bit on /etc/rc.d/rc.hald. This prevents the HAL daemon from > starting up at boot time. As long as it isn't running, Speakup will > respond normally. So far as I know, only X applications use this daemon to > automount CD ROMs and other removable disks when they are inserted. So, as > long as you don't run X, this should be OK. Has anybody else ran into this > problem? Or, is it a bug specific to Slackware? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > - -- Igor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBSUXJ9qe2pgKIdGq4AQqhshAAqu/fc0fb5SFU0nbnIEZV4V3no79w2r2V +xxXMpJTuJmigBGiuGQCBPdnp/TIQj24b3aSZdCZRs70gNmXucdBIQcYNORX0GMY +O7UbNAe90xXC3dhdSjK4RYbycOzs9LKkXaS7YIX6n6VqXXwqm6e8uc9rC4G+hz5 imIEoHEsruvUs/6Gj5pcvUQWOd5f87s4wYiMPIlGtwsqQuptFhVPcqTeB2/0z5Og v0uC44E9WCeiAwrymPkHcJEShtDTkimDkdGZrXVBbanFSyahyl8ffmVI/cTf8z4C yUDnu7052NGY8KQ4I3iYtsfDZutLR1SRs8s3zM1Vf/dpde3gis3o6kB8DbwUmlR5 qDHcO4tnmLUFY3FJ/713GMhIhxLJT8mC+jyjxh8ZWTxDXLdpJgbcX8pYZzNBD+So W3w9zQwGb7WsADPrD58ddrytSEIWTMW5UJaGqJRDFqU6KaY10m2/lS8/4GqUTyj9 uh8ioWThykI4Ic4D7JkHlh2rJAjamDjQe5C7Jg93kgYYdRrI304j0+HhjOGWaqym v6bNzGW5sY1sCsq6ZGY6KXxULQ1USs0zY8HJ1UbHKltNkROI7pzx6DHw689Q7nQ6 +S2EXuJOP+cmhcyDjcRwK8atvAHIrLpoWs2Y6JTSqsqF229QR/ziXBp6IBoyPAp7 kjaWfM2KLoo= =ew+y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
