Many thanks for the info. I'll do as you suggest. John On 09/16/12 19:30, Brandon McGinty-Carroll wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
