Hi, Chris and All, Thanks for this information. I ended up going for the environment method, although I used a drop in snippet instead of copying the whole unit. I hope a patch gets put upstream at some point soon, so this kind of sludge is not necessary. Best, Zack. > On Aug 13, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Chris Brannon <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Zachary Kline <zkline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hi All, >> >> Does anybody have a way of implementing the LIBASOUND_THREAD_SAFE=0 >> workaround in Arch, with its espeakup.service systemd unit? > > Hi Zack and all, > You've got a couple of options now. > > Samuel Thibault sent a patch to the Debian Accessibility list to fix the > issue in libasound. I've been running with that patch over here, and > espeakup seems to be working fine. > I put that patch up on my server so everyone can get it easily: > http://the-brannons.com/asound.patch > On Arch, you can add that patch to your ABS tree, adjust the PKGBUILD, > and rebuild alsa-lib from source. > > If you'd rather use the environment variable workaround discussed > earlier, I think the following steps should work for you under systemd. > Copy /usr/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service to /etc/systemd/system. > Edit /etc/systemd/system/espeakup.service. > Find the line that says [Service]. > After that line, insert > Environment=LIBASOUND_THREAD_SAFE=0 > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
