Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi again <Martin, > If I were you, at this point, this is what I would try. > 1. First make sure espeak still works. > espeak "do you still talk" > If it talks, you know that the tts will work. It still talks. > 2. apt-get purge espeakup There's where things seem to be set in concrete: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: espeak espeak-data espeak-ng-data libespeak-ng1 libespeak1 libpcaudio0 libsonic0 Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: espeakup* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 25 not upgraded. 12 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 79.9 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--remove): package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal Errors were encountered while processing: espeakup E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > This is to try and get rid of the failed espeakup install which makes your > package manager unhappy. The ironic thing is that apt-get is telling me the package is in such bad shape that it won't be removed. To me, that just screams "Let's start over and do it right." Until I get past that fallen tree, I can't move forward. > 3. Grab and build espeakup from git. > git clone git://github.com/williamh/espeakup.git > cd espeakup > make > make install > > 4. try running by hand. > modprobe speakup_soft if not yet done. > espeakup > press enter and see if you hear your prompt. > > If you do, just put a line that says espeakup in your rc.local and make > sure rc.local has execute permitions. > > chmod 755 /etc/rc.local > > 5. Check if the speakup_soft module is set to load at boot. It wasn't right now but I went ahead and added it to /etc/modules which is what debian uses. Debian is extremely closely related to ubuntu. > > On my ubuntu, there is a file: /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf which > contains a line: > > speakup_soft > > I wou;ld suggest that, if you have such a file, you add the line to it if > it is not there. If your distro has another way of specifying modules to > load at boot time, use that. > > If all else fails you can add the line to your /etc/rc.local. > > 5. Try rebooting and see if you still have speech. > HTH, Willem I imagine the rest will work as soon as I get rid of what is left of the old espeakup. I am familiar with /etc/modules from when I couldn't predict which sound card would be card 0 or card 1. That is what udev sorts out but the order of the sound devices was different about 50% of the time until I loaded the module for the on-board sound card from /etc/modules and after that, the system was as steady as a rock. Martin _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
