On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:05:55PM -0400, Frost wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:21:33PM -0400, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote: > > I am having lots of crashes with speakup and recent kernels > > I can avoid the crashes pretty easily, after having been a > Windows user (shameless dig). It's the garbled speech out of the > software synth that drives me nuts. I run any text file through lynx, > more, or less, or just chat on IRC with irssi, and about two or three > screenfuls into the file, speakup starts garbling things, usually right > in the middle of the screen, as if, say, lines 5 through 10 are being > affected and not the rest. It didn't happen with the 2.36 kernel in > Debian squeeze with the LiteTalk (LTLK) module, but did in the software > synthesizer. It's doing the same in the 2.6.38 kernel in wheezy, but > now I can't get the ltlk module to work, so that can't be checked. On a > side note, neither can I get orca or yasr working in Debian wheezy > because of that &#%$#^!@* pulse audio crap.) Good timing, Debian. > Screw it all up all at the same time... > If I recall, that is an Espeakup problem, not a Speakup-specific one; something about a lock not being properly released somewhere most likely. Perhaps it exists in other software speech configs as well; however, the only one I can attest to is Espeakup with Espeak. > > Michael > > -- > Linux User: 177869 # Powered By: Intel # http://rivensight.dyndns.org > Postings Copyrighted 2010-2011 by: Michael Ferranti > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Igor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
