Hi,
For what it's worth, this problem isn't specific to Slackware. Today,
on Debian Lenny Rc 1, I ran into the same issue. I installed Gnome and
found that along with the other dependencies it pulled in Hal. Low and
behold, rebooting my machine gave me sluggish performance. I, too, am using
a Dectalk USB in serial mode, with VirtualBox, for what that's worth.
Best,
Zack.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: speakup and hald conflict in Slackware 12.2
>I tested with Espeak as my software synthesizer, and espeakup driving it.
>There were no problems with hald. I then went back to the Dectalk, and the
>problem came back. Further, stopping hald after the fact didn't help. Even
>going into single-user mode didn't make Speakup respond normally. Only
>after disabling the startup script and rebooting did Speakup return to
>normal. Thus, I wonder if the problem is that hald is doing something on
>the serial port that the Dectalk isn't liking? I don't have any other
>serial synthesizers to test with.
>
> Also, I noticed that speakupconf doesn't work correctly. The command
> "speakupconf save" gives an error "cp: omitting directory `.'" Running
> speakupconf load, returns "cat: write error: Invalid argument."
>
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