Both the script and the package can be downloaded from http://www.slackbuilds.org/. The schroedinger package is a dependency of vlc and that's why I was trying to build it. I had a litetalk hanging off com1: and shortly into building the package it first appeared that speakup was being crashed. This happens with the build process in foreground and background makes no difference. I was on an internet connection with schroedinger being built in the background and had the speakup speech crash right in the middle of reading an e-mail message. Two things I plan on trying. On the theory that the build does funky things to ttyS0 at least move the litetalk to ttyS1 and try the build again. If that crashes and I expect it will, go into a different console and try the build in that console. This is the first time in my experience of building packages I've ever had anything like this happen with speakup. Last thing to try since I haven't figured out how to set this up completely in slackware is to get software speech going and have the litetalk disconnected while trying to build the schroedinger package. More later as I figure this stuff out. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
