Repost. Didn't change my address for the list. Those who are more familiar with this setup, please correct me. This is all off the top of my head. I figured this gentleman could use a quick attempt at a fix. The patches are at the below URL. http://the-brannons.com/speakup-patches.tar.gz allancox.patch and locking.patch are patches by different folks for the same issue. Either of these patches _should deal with your issue. The speakup repo is at: http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.git The speakup code is included in 3.4 kernels, but apparently the keypad bug patch hasn't been applied to some versions... As I recall, from your kernel dir, git apply --check /directory_to_patches/locking.patch should apply the keypad fix to your kernel, which you will then need to rebuild. Thanks for the patches, Chris. Brandon McGinty-Carroll On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:17:38PM +0100, John Robinson wrote: > Hi everyone. I've been a Gentoo and Speakup user for quite some time > and until recently, Speakup has worked perfectly. Now that I have > upgraded to Gentoo kernel 3.4.9, however, Speakup is no longer working > as it should. > > I am currently using Speakup version 3.1.6 with softsynth driver version > 2.6. The softsynth I am using is Espeak which connects to Espeak > through Espeakup. > > My problem is that my numeric keypad doesn't work when Speakup is > active. Whenever I press a key on my numeric keypad, my computer > freezes. When Speakup isn't active, for example when using Orca under > Gnome, the numeric keypad works perfectly. > > I would very much appreciate any advice anyone may have as to how to > solve this issue. > > Regards, > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
