-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 06:52:59PM -0400, John covici wrote: > OK, so I tried the latest speakup git with kernel 2.6.25 gentoo > sources and the following happened: > > I had speakout module built in and soft and dectalk express as > modules. Now the first time I booted, I let it talk without pressing > any keys and it eventually hung somewhere, i.e. lost speech and the > system was dead or crashed. Are you sure it was dead or crashed, or did you just lose speech? The reason I ask is you might have come across the issue that happens when we time out too many times waiting for the synth to tell us it can receive more data -- after it times out so many times we assume that someone has turned off the synth and put it in an unavailable status. > Then I rebooted and for quite a while -- > unlike my present kernel which is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 and a speakup git > of about 2 month ago -- I could get no keyboard access for some time, > although it did eventually appear. Then the system came up normally, > except that I had an app which could not initialize a modem > successfully for some reason, so I went back to the former kernel and > speakup. The app is called bbbs which I use to control modem events. > I suppose I could use cron, but this is much more convenient. The modem issue sounds like it might be the "floating serial ports" issue reported in Bugs.txt. William -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhoF6YACgkQblQW9DDEZTibaACgjj1u+NOwQfalKBgZLWPJY9t9 HR8AmgK6NL6TEW/Yb8msqv5oK9/4PS8a =qqfx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
