Are there any actions common to each crash? E.g. an application running, a certain amount of time spent idle, an attempt to copy and paste with speakup? I've ggot an RP here; if I can get an sd card and writer, I'll put on a kernel and give it a whirl. Brandon McGinty-Carroll On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 07:29:57PM +0100, Mike Ray wrote: > Hello Gene, > > Thanks for the welcome. > > Although I have SpeakUp running in Raspbian, there are some serious > stability issues. Sometimes the tty I'm logged in to crashes and > occasionally the kernel crashes, or I assume it does as once this > happens there's no way I can tell what has happened. > > In getting this far I have had to look at the source quite closely > and I noticed the changes over the last few years following some > fundamental kernel changes. > > It looks to me as if a lot of the distros are making patches to the > source and these patches don't seem to find their way back to the > SpeakUp source repo. > > In an effort to solve the stability issues in the Pi kernel version > 3.6.11 I took the SpeakUp source from kernel.org's 3.8.11 tree but > it doesn't seem to have solved the problem. > > I don't know if these stability problems are specifically Raspberry > Pi problems, possibly relating to the lower resources on the little > machine, or whether SpeakUp is unstable in some desktop distros. > > Opinions and any help would be welcomed. > > Mike > > > > On 03/05/2013 19:03, acollins at icsmail.net wrote: > >Hello Mike! Welcome aboard! I'm not a raspberry user, but I'm glad to > >hear you have yours up and running. You'll find most topics fair game > >for discussion here. > > > >Gene Collins > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I've just joined the list. > >> > >>I have recently managed to get SpeakUp going for the Raspberry Pi using > >>Raspbian. > >> > >>In doing so I've had to do a lot of reading about kernel versions and > >>SpeakUp source etc. so I thought I'd join the list. > >> > >>Mike > >> > >>-- > >>Michael A. Ray > >>Analyst/Programmer > >>South-east UK > >> > >>Interested in accessibility for the Raspberry Pi? > >>Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ > >> > >> From where you can join our mailing list for visually impaired Pi hackers > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Speakup mailing list > >>Speakup at linux-speakup.org > >>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
