CD-ROM "mplayer" saga continues

[Janina Sajka]

You need to get the config tool from the Speakup web site, install and
use it to save your preferred settings. There's no mechanism for that in
the default Speakup Modified Fedora. Perhaps we should add it in, but
it's not there by default.


W. Nick Dotson writes:
> While I've been able to make lot of Linux progress with keyboard on stomach laying down with Mr. Flu; I have one as yet unresolved problem.  The only way I 
> could get "mplayer" to acknowledge the existence of my CD-ROM drive with an audio CD inside was, "mplayer /dev/cdrom".  It grumbled about expecting 
> some output code and getting another a couple of times, after having hit the drive and acknowledged it, then all speech stopped, the keyboard went dead, and 
> I had to use the reset button, one time the computer emmitted a continuous beep.
> 
> And, as usual, Janina was directly on target, despite the less than comfortable amount of labels and stuff I'm used to in Windows audio stuff, I did get the mixer 
> to do my bidding, but when the computer reboots, neither it,nor my speech settings stick.  Maybe the former is a function of the crash, but I do sort of remember 
> something about the speech stuff encountered by someone else earlier...
> 
> Nick
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