I use built-in speakout as my main synthesizer. on Monday 06/30/2008 Samuel Thibault(samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org) wrote > John covici, le Sun 29 Jun 2008 18:52:59 -0400, a ?crit : > > 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. 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. > > > > Any thoughts? > > Was all of this with the dectalk express, or the soft, or both? It's > important to know, so as to track down the issues. > > Samuel -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com