speakup and hald conflict in Slackware 12.2

[Zachary Kline]

Hi,
    For what it's worth, this problem isn't specific to Slackware.  Today, 
on Debian Lenny Rc 1, I ran into the same issue.  I installed Gnome and 
found that along with the other dependencies it pulled in Hal.  Low and 
behold, rebooting my machine gave me sluggish performance.  I, too, am using 
a Dectalk USB in serial mode, with VirtualBox, for what that's worth.
Best,
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: Monday, December 15, 2008 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: speakup and hald conflict in Slackware 12.2


>I tested with Espeak as my software synthesizer, and espeakup driving it. 
>There were no problems with hald.  I then went back to the Dectalk, and the 
>problem came back.  Further, stopping hald after the fact didn't help. Even 
>going into single-user mode didn't make Speakup respond normally. Only 
>after disabling the startup script and rebooting did Speakup return to 
>normal.  Thus, I wonder if the problem is that hald is doing something on 
>the serial port that the Dectalk isn't liking?  I don't have any other 
>serial synthesizers to test with.
>
> Also, I noticed that speakupconf doesn't work correctly.  The command 
> "speakupconf save" gives an error "cp: omitting directory `.'"  Running 
> speakupconf load, returns "cat: write error: Invalid argument."
>
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