I have two machines running Arch that will not talk with the latest espeakup using the latest alsa. I don't know for a fact, but presume there's some discrepency with pipewire. Solution/workaround of the moment is to keep alsa-lib, alsa-utils, and espeakup out of any system updates. I do this in my /etc/pacman.conf with lines like the following: IgnorePkg =espeakup IgnorePkg =alsa-lib IgnorePkg =alsa-utils If I slip up and somehow get one of these upgraded, I can downversion by going to my machine via ssh, becoming root, followed by: cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg This cache directory holds previous versions of installed packages, and you can downversion with a command like: pacman -U ./alsa-lib-1.2.4-3-x86_64.pkg The 1.2.4 alsa versions work for me, where the 1.2.5 versions do not. The 0.9.0 espeakup also doesn't help on either of my machines. Best, Janina Joseph C. Lininger writes: > Good day all, > I saw a couple of messages earlier about ALSA issues on Arch Linux with > espeakup. I can't find them now though. The latest versions of alsa, > speakup, linux kernel, etc. cause the speach to lag while typing. Is there a > workaround to this, packages I should not upgrade right now, etc? I can > revert my system to a previous state, but I need to know how to avoid this > problem when I go to update packages going forward. Also, anyone know if a > fix is in the works? Obviously just permanently using older package versions > isn't a good solution. > > Thanks in advance. > Joe -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
