Broken Paramaters in Speakup

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I can pull these right away but am remotely connected from a windows
box at work right now so won't be able to test this further until this
evening.  I do appreciate the quick action though.  I'm new to Debian
and the way kernels are managed there so haven't compiled anything
newer than what is offered by current testing image of Lenny.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:11:43AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
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> All,
> 
> I have just committed a change to git that removes most of the error
> messages.  Can someone pull from git and reply to this thread and let me
> know  how it is working now?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> William
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:24:05PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > I was thinking of doing something like that.  I figured I would report
> > it here so we can see if it can be fixed or if someone can tell me
> > where to look, I might even take a stab at it.  I've never dealt with
> > kernel control variables before.  But your solution is a good
> > work-around for the time being.
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:39:44PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > Steve,
> > > 
> > > I hope someone smarter than me can figure that one out. I had to kludge
> > > a partial solution like this:
> > > 
> > > 1. forget about the speakupconf save function. Also forget about normal
> > > users being able to update the parameters. Limit it to root.
> > > 
> > > 2. Start with an inherited copy of /etc/speakup/ if you are lucky
> > > enough to have one, and make any necessary changes to its contents with
> > > an editor.
> > > 
> > > 3. run speakupconf load, note which files produce errors, and delete
> > > them from /etc/speakup/
> > > 
> > > The result is that the files that remain in /etc/speakup/  will work
> > > okay with speakupconf load, and that's as good as it's going to get.
> > > I'm sure there's a better solution, but the above is how I'm surviving
> > > until the Cavalry comes.
> > > 
> > > Chuck
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:55:14PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > > > With the version of speakup in the 2.6.26-1 kernel, I find that some
> > > > of the variables or files in /sys/module/speakup/parameters/ won't
> > > > update properly.  3 examples are the punc-some, punc-most and punc_all
> > > > variables.  What happens is if you cat the values from a saved place
> > > > such as is done with speakupconf, I get a slew of errors saying "cat:
> > > > argument invalid" and the targets end up empty so what happens in my
> > > > case is the punc_most chars get completely whiped out.  I also get
> > > > this error if I try and cat that variable by hand so the script is ok
> > > > here.
> > > > 
> > > > Also, when I do a speakupconf save I get the errors I'll show below.
> > > > I'm using spkout as the synth of choice.
> > > > Script started on Fri 17 Oct 2008 06:58:17 AM MST
> > > > lnx3:~# speakupconf save
> > > > cp: omitting directory `.'
> > > > cp: reading `voice': Invalid argument
> > > > cp: reading `lang': Invalid argument
> > > > cp: reading `freq': Invalid argument
> > > > cp: reading `silent': Operation not permitted
> > > > lnx3:~# exit
> > > > exit
> > > > 
> > > > Script done on Fri 17 Oct 2008 06:58:39 AM MST
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