strange thing is that for me at least the synth doesn't seem to lock up in the old cvs version of speakup. I would still be using the last version from cvs but I like how the newer speakup from git is more responsive. Nick Stockton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:35 PM Subject: Re: System still locks up on me in Debian > Probably nothing. > Once the doubletalk buffer fills up, the doubletalk will handshake off and > leave speakup stuck. > I used to get around this by powering the doubletalk off and on to empty > the buffer. > This is a known bug. Once you had too much text the whole thing can lock > solid. > I have no idea if anyone is looking into this bug; most people don't have > speakup compiled into the kernel these days and just either load as > modules and turn speech off or silence at bootup which is not ideal. > > Not sure if this is beeing worked on at all and who would debug it. > > Regards, Kerry. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net> > To: "SpeakUP Mailing List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 4:08 AM > Subject: System still locks up on me in Debian > > >> Hello all, >> >> Just writing to report that the latest speakup upgrade in debian >> is still crashing when performing long displays of text while using the >> LTLK module. I'm running things with the 2.6.26-686 kernel on a celeron >> system. Usually I just hit keypad enter to silence the boot messages, >> but if I don't do that, then the system locks up tight, requiring a >> press of the reset switch or a full power-off. Any ideas on what I may >> be doing wrong? >> >> Michael >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 3727 (20081231) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > >