ltlk"timeout waiting for input"

[John Heim]

I have a tripletalk at work and a doubletalk at home. I've been getting 
a message when i initialize them that says "timeout waiting for input". 
  I believe I get 1 per second for 60 seconds and then the synthesizer 
begins working.

Anybody know what causes this? At first I thought it was only with the 
tripletalk. then I thought it was because I had a gettiy on the serial 
port. I'm pretty sure it's none of those things.  I've observed it on a 
bunch of different machines some of which have the kernel from Shane at 
debian and some have a kernel I compiled myself.

It's not a deal killer. Waiting 60 seconds for the screen reader to 
start up is a pain. And it's a bit embarrassing if my boss is looking 
over my shoulder. But my main problem is that  I think whatever is wrong 
is also causing emacspeak to not work with the external synthes.

I must have something misconfigured on all of these machines. They'd 
have similar configurations because i've configured them all myself and 
so I figure I'm consistently making the same mistake again and again.

-- 
John Heim
263-4189 / jheim at math.wisc.edu / http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/