Espeakup, mplayer, speakup, etc. are now playing nicely together. Here is what had happened. I have a Prism 2.5 wireless card in this Thinkpad T23. I hadn't been able to get it to work before when I installed and had been using a pcmcia wireless card. When I installed this time, the card sort of worked. The interface would come up on wlan1 but I would get constant messages about virtual device wifi0 asking to queue packets. Changing to wifi0 stopped the card from working altogether. I had noticed during installation that the card was listed as eth1 though I hadn't been able to get it to configure to use during the installation. I did an lsmod and found the following modules that appeared to be ones that might be conflicting or at least one of them might be causing a problem: orinoco, orinoco_pci, hostap, hostap_pci. By process of elimination I found that my card worked when I blacklisted all except orinoco_pci but that also stopped speakup and espeakup from working when mplayer was running. I finally solved the problem by playing with blacklisting some more. Now I have orinoco and hostap_pci blacklisted. The strange thing about this is that orinoco and orinoco_pci actually appear when I do lsmod now but when I blacklisted hostap and hostap_pci I had problems. Blacklisting orinoco and hostap_pci ends up with bost hostaps not loading but doesn't produce problem results. The only kind of strange thing is that mplayer loads with oss instead of alsa. I can force alsa with -ao alsa but then I seem to always get a 48000Hz sample rate where it varies with the default oss according to what is being played or streamed. At any rate, at least I'm not having conflicts between my audio playing and my screenreading. -- Cheryl "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength and my redeemer." (Psalm 19:14 Bible KJV)
