Conflict with Emacspeak?

jack mendez wiler1 at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 15 12:10:50 EDT 2003


one way to do this would be to install one of the standard kernel-images
available with apt, and then configure lilo to boot with it using an alias.
At 10:58 AM 9/15/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi.  If you're trying to get emacspeak to use the same synth as speakup,
>you will need to boot using a kernel without speakup for emacspeak to use it.
>The print screen key doesn't unload speakup, it just stops it from doing
>anything on the current console.  Since speakup got the synth when the
>system booted, no other screen reader can use it.  Speakup does have a
>way to let other programs talk to the synth, but the other programs will
>have to be written to use it.
>
>          Kenny
>	  
>On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:05:18PM +0100, Léonie Watson wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>>     I'm still suffering the conflict between Speakup and Emacspeak on my
>> Debian (testing) distro.
>> 
>>     I've tried using the printscr key to unload Speakup before entering
>> Emacspeak, but Speakup doesn't unload.
>> 
>>     I'm using a Dectalk Express, should this make any difference and at
this
>> time, really don't know enough to figure out much for myself.
>> 
>>     Apologies to those on the Emacspeak list, where I am also pursuing this
>> enquiry, for the dual post.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tink
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