Samuel Thibault wrote: >> I haven't checked if the speech stopping after about 4 KB of text has >> been fixed yet. >> > > It should. > > Hi, Sorry, no luck. I ran cdparanoia which shows a constantly updated progress bar. Speech always stops once the progress bar gets displayed because it is constantly changing, even if I interrupt speech. specifically, if I run cdparanoia and wait for the progress bar to start displaying, hit keypad Enter and keypad 8, I get no speech unless I hit a Speakup key about four or five times. If I hold down the keypad 8 for a few seconds and release, speech starts again until the buffer (or whatever it is) is full again. >> The two small problems are as follows: First, I followed Samuel's >> instructions for building modules. I did the following commands: >> >> m-a prepare >> tar -jxf speakup*.tar.bz2 >> cd modules/speakup (I was already in /usr/src) >> make >> make modules_install >> > > Errr. If you installed a debian speakup-source package then you just > need to run > > m-a a-i speakup > > The instructions you quote above were for the case when you install by > hand from a git clone and don't really have to do with debian except m-a > prepare that installs the stuff that speakup needs to compile. > > Again, sorry but this doesn't seem to be correct. I tried that several times with the previous snapshot after I installed it and it still insisted on running "apt-get install speakup-source" every time, regardless whether I did "m-a prepare" first and even though I had installed the latest (3.0.2 20080517) snapshot previously several weeks ago. It seems that "m-a a-i speakup" always downloads sources even if they are installed. I had the tar.bz2 archive in /usr/src before even trying m-a, so presumably it could find it. I tried running from within /usr/src and other directories. >> The problems are that it isn't obvious that the Speakup source is >> installed under /usr/src/modules/speakup. >> > > That's debian policy, but as I said above, forget about > it, just use m-a a-i speakup, which is documented in > /usr/share/doc/speakup-source/README.Debian > > Yes, that's fine if you want to install what happens to be available in the current Debian release. A section on installing manually would help if you're running Stable and want to install from Unstable, but since it seems to always download the sources anyway, maybe it wouldn't matter. >> Most packages I've compiled from source use a dash instead, such as >> make modules-install. >> > > I guess these weren't kernel module packages. > > I meant packages generally, not modules. Some packages, for example, support "make install-strip" to strip binaries first. The only remaining problem I see is that speech still stops after about 4 KB. I have no other hardware synthesizers to try and I don't have software speech installed, so I suppose it could be a DEC-Talk Express issue. I would consider that bug somewhat serious as I've missed important information when installing packages because speech suddenly stops and by the time I get it to come back, text has long since scrolled past. Apparently there is a scrollback buffer in the kernel but I never got it to work.
