Stopping Speakup while using Gnome.

[Zachary Kline]

Hello,
    This simply isn't working for me--I've killed Speakup on TTY7, after 
starting Gnome and Orca, but the speakup keypad review keys still say blank, 
and preempt Orca's review keys.  Could the fact I'm using a software 
synthesizer have something to do with this?  Is this a bug fixed in later 
Speakup versions?
Thanks,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrowa at bellsouth.net>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:11 PM
Subject: RE: Stopping Speakup while using Gnome.


> You have to kill Speakup after you start Gnome.  The reason is that when X
> starts, it allocates itself a new virtual terminal.  The commands to kill
> Speakup only effect the virtual console that they are run from.  Let's say
> you are on tty1, which is the case when you first log in.  When X starts, 
> it
> will turn TTY1 into a console for error messages and debugging output.  X
> will get the first free TTY.  Using Slackware as an example, this will be
> TTY7 since Slackware allocates 6 TTYs by default at boot time assuming you
> are in run level 3.  Thus, the command to kill Speakup should be given 
> once
> Gnome is up and running.  HTH.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Darragh
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 1:25 PM
> To: speakup
> Subject: Stopping Speakup while using Gnome.
>
> Hello,
>
> How can I stop speakup listening for key presses when I'm in gnome?
> I've tried pressing the ... I think it's the scrole lock. I cant remember
> the name of the button. sorry. it's late. it's the third button in from 
> the
> top row on the right. that says you killed speakup. then I press insert 
> and
> enter and it says you turned me off but when I'm in gnome and I'm using 
> orca
> keystrokes speakup starts talking again.  I don't want to unlode speakup
> from memory as I often go back to a console to continue working on other
> things so I would really like to know how to just temporarily stop it.
>
> Or maybe I do need to completely unlode the module.  but, how do I do this
> without needing a reboot to get it working again? using modprobe
> speakup_apollo doesn't work after using the command rmmod.
> now, I may have that rmmod command wrong. It's been some time since I used
> it and as I said, it's late and I'm probably not thinking as clarly as
> usual.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
>
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