interesting occurrence with amd dual core, what do you thing?

[Glenn Ervin]

Doug,
Which speech are you running on GRML to have software speech?
I have GRML on on CD, it is about a year or so old, but I have been running 
it with my Dectalk, but now I need software speech for my laptop without a 
serial port.
Thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Smith" <bdsmith at oralux.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: interesting occurrence with amd dual core, what do you thing?


Hi: I am Doug Smith.  I have just started receiving from the mailing
list, and I have been reading about all your apparent troubles with
amd dual core systems, the exact one that I want.  Here's the problem
I have.

My wife said that she would buy me a new AMD 64 X 2 dual core and that
I could get it in any configuration I wanted.  I want to get one, but
I am not sure what's going on here, so I will ask a few questions.

First of all, are you in a text-based console when speechd-up and
speech-dispatcher decide to exit stage left, or is it happening in a
graphical environment?

Next, are you using the integrated, on-board sound equipment on the
amd system, or did you just put a standard sound card in it? The
reason I wonder about this is that, each time I go into a store and
put my GRML disk into an amd dual core machine, to try to show my
wife how this speech works, I get the funniest failure message, and I
believe that it has something to do with the kind of sound hardware on
the motherboard of the machine.  It might be solvable with something
like sndconfig, but I don't want to keep holding up a machine that
others might be interested in looking at and buying.  The message is
this:

failed writing 128 samples

It comes from the swspeak program that drives speakup in this
operating system.  I will write them tonight, as well, and see if they
are aware of it.  If you know anything about this, pleast tell me
more.



Thanks.



Doug Smith




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