speakup "remembers" old screen

[Janina Sajka]

I have also seen this. When this happens I am oftimes not focused where
I think I'm focused. I'm off a char or two, in other words.

Not sure this is a Speakup bug. It may be associated with using utf.

John Heim writes:
> Occasionally I have a problem with speakup, it seems to re-read a screen 
> that was previously displayed rather than what is currently on the screen. I 
> don't really know of anything in particular that causes it.  But, for 
> example, I might do a ifconfig and then a clear, and it will keep reading 
> the ifconfig info as if it's still on the screen.
> 
> I've noticed this behaviour in many versions of the kernel. I know at least 
> that it's happened with kernels i've compiled myself from 2.6.12 through 
> 2.6.18. I can't say for sure that it's happened on machines running a kernel 
> downloaded from Shane's space on the debian server.
> 
> Anyway, I am mostly interested in knowing if there's a way to get speakup to 
> "refresh" itself or whatever.
> 
> 
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> John Heim
> jheim at math.wisc.edu
> 3-4189
> 
> 
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