No hardware synthesizer is available. On Fri, 15 Apr 2022, John Covici wrote: > You might try a hardware synth instead and when you compile the kernel > you can fix it up the way you want. Also, I like to use ssh to > install such a thing, I am pretty sure you can use some boot parameter > on your net install to do this. > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:02:31 -0400, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > > Things run until they don't any longer. > > When they don't run any longer speakup dies. The speakup cannot be > > revived when this happens. > > Also the system likely crashes since a poweroff command as root fails to > > turn the system off. > > Many times in order to start the computer I have to use the reset button > > in addition to the power button on an 8 core 14gb ram amd system. > > I tried restricting gentoo to one core with nosmp but that didn't help at > > all either. > > I tried with latest stage3 systemd file and latest gentoo-minimal disk. > > So far as I'm concerned, gentoo at this time is uninstallable on this > > system. > > When speakup dies happens at random points during system installation too. > > I got no idea what's going on and would like to know if I'm unique and > > need a new computer or if this happens to others installing gentoo with > > speakup. I've tried gentoo and gentoo-nofb kernels too. > > The farthest I got in recent install attempts was the emerge-webrsync step > > which failed because of a bad /etc/portage/make.conf file. > > > > > >