Hello again good people, I updated the kernel of a buster machine to what's found in backports, 5.10.0. That did not have any impact on reading while scrolling. I thought maybe the screen was scrolling slower so I stuck a beep command on the same line, as it would follow as soon as the screen had all of the output printed. In both the case of sid and buster the number of lines were around 1600, and the time that it took for the beep to be heard from pressing enter was very very similar. It really seems to me like something has changed in espeakup or espeak-ng. I'll play with upgrading buster, and downgrading sid until I find something. Best, --FC > On Dec 15, 2021, at 2:05 PM, Frank Carmickle <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey Kirk, > > I hope you and the family are all well. > > As I noted, I can use the keyboard, to have speakup play the line change tones while using review by word, so that's not it. > > I'm guessing there's some problem in espeakup or speakup_soft. > > I'll update a buster system to use a 5.10 kernel and see what happens. > > Be well, > --FC > >> On Dec 15, 2021, at 12:37 PM, Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi Frank: Yes, I've noticed the problem. My guess is they've lowered >> the keyboard interrupt priority so it doesn't get recognized until all >> output is complete. That's just a guess however and yes it is >> iritating as hell. >> >> Kirk >> >> On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Frank Carmickle wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been noticing a problem with speakup/espeakup/espeak-ng, across kernels 5.10 5.14 and now 5.15. When I write a lot of output to a screen, say dmesg without a pager, screen review stops working for a few seconds. I know speakup is still responding because the tones are played when navigating by word when moving to a new line. The speech is interrupted appropriately but it will not speak again for a few seconds. >>> >>> Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have an idea of where to look to help sort this out. >>> >>> I very much liked the former functionality of being able to press a key to momentarily flush the buffer and pick up reading the screen immediately. >>> >>> Thanks all, >>> --FC >>> >>> >> > >
