Speakup and Emacspeak

[Victor Tsaran]

Hi, Geoff!
For whatever reason I thought that /dev/synth device was supposed to resolve
this problem.  Wasn't that the case?
Vic

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang at uq.net.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: Speakup and Emacspeak


> Hi:
>
> You will need to run a kernel without speakup, or a kernel with the
current
> CVS version of speakup and no synth selected.  I don't quite know what
> killing speakup does and does not do, but it's obviously not releasing the
> serial port that your speech synth is on.  The reason why speakup hogs the
> serial port at all is mainly because it's apparently linux kernel policy
> that it be done this way.  I'm sure we'd all like to see speakup
eventually
> become part of the standard linux kernel and if this is to happen, the
port
> must be handled this way to comply with linux standards.
>
> Note that I'm assuming you're trying to use emacspeak with the same synth
> that you're using speakup with.  If this is not the case then completely
> disregard this message.  I've not used emacspeak so can't advise on its
> use.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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