A big part of the problem is that even if someone is willing to take on writing fixes for speakup, the kernel people won't cooperate. I tried to get some help/advice from the linux kernel list on implementing the bug fix I had for serial synths. Their advice -- start over. PS: I think that particular bug got fixed for real by someone who knows way more about the speakup code than I do. I'm running a 3.2 kernel from squeeze backports and the bbug is fixed. On 05/01/13 07:27, Kirk Reiser wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Hart Larry wrote: > >> Quite some months ago Bill Acker suggested I login as an >> ssh localhost >> on each console where I would want to cut-and-paste. Well, actually >> unless there were a way for this anoyance to just ruin 1 tty instead >> of freeze an entire machine? I also suppose having a script on bootup >> log us in a localhost. >> This bug just comes so suddenly, no warning--and-best as we can tell >> all activity stops. > > As far as I know, Chris Brannon submitted a patch to fix the > cut-and-paste lock-up bug somewhere around 3.2.x. I don't know if that > patch ever made it into the kernel speakup version or not. > >> I realize-and-appreciate that we have an active community, many who >> are knowledgeable, ETC. But it almost seems Speakup may join YASR as >> having gotten at a certain level-and-thats it. > > Without new blood interested in taking speakup further, you may very > well be correct. > >> I've been on this list since 2003, but now for `quite some time I >> still cannot move up past 2.632 as I would have no DecTalk speech. I >> think John Heim wrote a patch to fix this, but I have no idea what >> steps will install? >> And lastly, still about the DecTalk, if we can ever produce a log >> showing commands which Speakup is sending, James says he can assist. > > Unless someone decides to take on writing external drivers for USB and > RS232C synths, you will never see a DECTalk Express fix. The only > support over the past few years has been for the softsynth version of > speakup. There have been a few serial fixes but they have been more of > an aside than anything else. The serial synth substructure is terribly > out of date and nobody appears to be willing to rewrite it. > >
