Conflict with Emacspeak?

Léonie Watson lw at nomensa.com
Mon Sep 15 15:01:34 EDT 2003


Kenny,

    Gottit! Thanks, just what I needed to know.

Cheers,
Tink
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kennyhitt at knology.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Conflict with Emacspeak?


> 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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