Speakup 1.5 Oddness

[Luke Davis]

Oh, and I have been running long DOSEmu sessions, some times two at a 
time, on this 200 MHZ machine.  Wonder if that could have any connection?

Luke

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> I'd say reboot the box. I've seen weirdness before with uptimes as
> long as yours, and it all went away after a reboot.
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> Greg
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> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:27:09PM -0600, Luke Davis wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Kernel: 2.4.21
>> Speakup: 1.5
>> Synth: DEC Express
>> Uptime: 49 days
>>
>> I am running 8 consoles, all logged in, running different processes.
>>
>> TTY1, has just diverged from all other consoles.  Its main purpose, has
>> been an ssh connection to my ISP, running pine, lynx, etc., via screen, on
>> that system.
>>
>> In lynx, when I press space to go to the next page, it usually starts
>> reading that page.  Of course, because it's 1.5, it it usually reads
>> "word", carrage return, "word", as "wordword", if I just let it read the
>> drawing screen without having it start over after the screen is drawn, but
>> that is usual.
>> I noticed, that it had suddenly started pronouncing every single space, as
>> it drew the screen.
>>
>> Then too, in pine, when I pressed space to go to another page, it would
>> say some strange things, such as space, or a character, or something.
>> Trying to read the full screen, would maybe start with a "space", instead
>> of "pine 4.62", or what ever it should be.
>>
>> I left ssh, and back at my shell, tried typing "reset", logging out/in,
>> and setting speakup back to the defaults I usually use.
>>
>> No help.  When ever I press enter, instead of hearing my shell prompt, I
>> hear the word "space".
>> If I switch to another console, and back to tty1, I either hear the
>> current line (the shell prompt), or the word "space".
>>
>> I'm probably forgetting a few.
>>
>> Other ttys are working, and speaking, as they should.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Oh, a few times in the last few weeks, that console (tty1), and maybe a
>> few others, would periodicly stop talking.  Switching away from the
>> malfunctioning console, and switching back, would set things right.
>>
>>  Thanks
>>
>> Luke
>>
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