speakup and hald conflict in Slackware 12.2

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi Adam. That seems to be specific to Slackware, since I have run Hald on my
DIY-based laptop, and it co-exists with Speakup just fine.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 08:27:47PM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote:
> Hi.  I just wanted to make anybody who uses Slackware, and is planning to 
> upgrade to Slackware 12.2 aware of a nasty conflict between Speakup and the 
> HAL daemon (AKA hald.)
>
> After I installed Slackware 12.2, and rebooted, Speakup came up with 
> incredibly slow response times!  It took up to 5 seconds to respond to any 
> key press.  This is with a Dectalk USB in serial mode, so it emulates a 
> Dectalk Express.  Since this did not happen on the install CD, I did some 
> tests, and eventually found out that this didn't happen if I removed the 
> execute bit on /etc/rc.d/rc.hald.  This prevents the HAL daemon from 
> starting up at boot time.  As long as it isn't running, Speakup will 
> respond normally.  So far as I know, only X applications use this daemon to 
> automount CD ROMs and other removable disks when they are inserted. So, as 
> long as you don't run X, this should be OK.  Has anybody else ran into this 
> problem?  Or, is it a bug specific to Slackware?
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