Speakup chokes on long resitations.

[Georgina]

Hi

This sounds like when I'd compiled a kernel which caused a lot of material for 
the boot up process, if I didn't hit the mute key, the system would hang.  
I just considered that I'd sent too much material for the buffer to cope with 
so it refused to accept any more and cause it to hang.  Its probably complete 
nonsense but it never hung if I muted the speech during boot up.  It also 
happens when Slackware is installing all the selected packages without 
prompting.

Gena



>Hi list.
>I have been having this little problem with speakup or something for
>some time now, but I wasn't sure if it was a memory problem or what.
>I am using a doubletalk PC on both my machines which are both running
>Slackware 8.0 with kernel 2.4.5.  If I have speakup read a long
>passage of text, it will eventually choke, that is, the synthesizer
>will not respond to ctrl or anything to silence it, and when it
>finally does go silent, everything is frozen and I have to do an
>ungraceful reboot.
>I usually run Speakup with key_echo set to 0 since that's the way I
>like it, but I'm not even sure that Speakup is causing the problem.
>Any ideas would be helpful since there are times when I can't silence
>the speech in time and I don't know enough Linux to look at what to
>check.
>thanks.
>
>
>Dan Murphy
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