Re: Speakup on Arch Linux

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Hi Janina,

<off topic>
Friendly reminder: Slint is free for chairs of committees of the W3C.
Not so bleeding edge than Arch globally but with a fairly up to date a11y stack,
fully accessible in all contexts and more stable than Arch.
Caveat: now with an automatic mode of installation. I know, it's not the Arch
way, sorry about that...
link: https://slint.fr/doc/HandBook.html
</off topic>

Cheers,
Didier

PS: please let me know any accessibility issue of the handbook you could come
across.

Le 24/07/2021 à 15:48, Janina Sajka a écrit :
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





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