I have this problem on my Lenovo X61S. But, I have a work around ... After resuming, I run an aplay on some wav file. This wakes Speakup right up. Only takes a second of sound or so to get it going again. hth Janina > On Thu, 16 May 2013, Steve Holmes wrote: > > >I've been noticing a big problem lately when I close the lid on my > >laptop. I lose speech completely when I re-open the lid later. I'm > >running latest Arch Linux with the systemd implementation so espeakup > >is started as a system service and I also have speech dispatcher > >running as a central process using the systemd stuff. Anyway, When the > >lid is closed, it automatically runs whatever steps to "sleep" the > >machine. When I open it back up, most everything else "wakes" up find > >but I have no speech. I recall some incidents where espeak and spd-say > >would work when manually tested from the command line. alas, speakup > >is down for the count. I even tried recently to do a "systemd restart > >espeakup" but that managed to completely lock up that console > >session. When this systemd stuff got introduced a short while ago, I > >recalled everything coming up just fine. Now, no speech every time. I > >have to reboot to get speakup back. > > > >Any ideas why this is going on? > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at linux-speakup.org > >http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >-- > >This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > >The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > > >This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, > >and is believed to be clean. > > > >Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/