> On Oct 9, 2018, at 9:52 AM, Keith Barrett <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 07/10/18 19:33, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Hello, >> Dietmar Segbert, le mar. 02 oct. 2018 18:21:00 +0000, a ecrit: >>> modprobe speakup-apollo dev:/dev/ttyUSB0 >> I don't think this is the way to pass options to modules, it should >> rather be >> insmod speakup-apollo dev=/dev/ttyUSB0 >> (note insmod, and '=') >> Could some people handle updating the speakup documentation to properly >> document how to use the dev parameter? (doing insmod by hand is fine for >> testing, but people should rather use a conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/) > > This has highlighted a couple of issues with speakup. > I have had a recent issue with loss of speech in espeakup and have used an apollo. > It seems impossible to unload the speakup_soft module and when the apollo is connected, alternative letters are spoken via espeak and the apollo. > > I believe this issue was reported on this list some time ago and I am now able to confirm the findings. > > Debian buster updated on 9th October 2018. > > There is also an issue whether espeak stops working randomly although speakup does not crash. I sent a backtrace to Samuel on the debian accessibility mailing list roughly three months ago. This is not an issue with buster specifically. It’s been alive and well for quite a while now on my system. I’ll start a new thread for others to look at the backtrace. --FC > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
