I'm forwarding Deedra's message to the list, since it came to me directly. I do agree that outstanding bugs which effect everyone should be solved first, and wish list items such as internal ISA cards should be probably given lower priority. Greg ----- Forwarded message from deedra Waters <deedra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ----- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:00:55 -0700 From: deedra Waters <deedra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: TODO file i would say we need to find out how many people are actually still using those i know of at least 2-3. if there are say 10 people that actually use those synths then maybe it's worth looking at. but honestly i'd focus on the main bugs first . and i mean the bugs that really need fixing then after those are fixed then move on to the hardware synths if there's time.. personally it's been close to 10 years since i was able to have a hardware synth and with the stuff i carry around these days and with how bulky they can be it's not worth the extra back pain to worry about hardware synths. honestly at this point, i really wish someone would fix the garbled speach bug because it's largely why i dont use speakup in the console any more. I have speakup as a backup at this point because it got too frustrating to use with garbled speech on a machine that's smp and no way i'm disabling cores just to have speech that's not garbled. On 3/15/19 4:54 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:39:55PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Okash Khawaja, le ven. 15 mars 2019 10:57:35 +0000, a ecrit: >>> 1. What are our options for internal synths which still use direct >>> communication with hardware: acntpc, decpc, dtlk and keypc? >> I was thinking they could just remain in staging. The corresponding >> hardware is very difficult to make work nowadays (typically ISA cards), >> so I don't think it is a problem that they are not in mainline. > I'd just like to chime in here, and say that at least myself, and one > more person on this list are still using a DoubleTalk PC card (dtlk > driver). While I understand the two of us are in the minority, it > would be appreciated if these cards could be made to work once again > with newer kernels. > > Unfortunately, shipping a PC within the U.S. is quite expensive, never > mind shipping one from the U.S. to the U.K. Since this hardware is > also rare as Samuel points out, I admit parting with that machine to > ship it would be a last resort option for me. Getting into linux > development is on my to do list, so maybe I'll resolve this myself one > day if I'm still using the DoubleTalk card by that time. > > Greg > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
