experience with speakup git of today tusing 2.6.25-gentoo-r5

[John covici]

I use built-in speakout as my main synthesizer.

on Monday 06/30/2008 Samuel Thibault(samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org) wrote
 > John covici, le Sun 29 Jun 2008 18:52:59 -0400, a écrit :
 > > OK, so I tried the latest speakup git with kernel 2.6.25 gentoo
 > > sources and the following happened:
 > > 
 > > I  had speakout module built in and soft and dectalk express as
 > > modules.  Now the first time I booted, I let it talk without pressing
 > > any keys and it eventually hung somewhere, i.e. lost speech and the
 > > system was dead or crashed.  Then I rebooted and for quite a while --
 > > unlike my present kernel which is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 and a speakup  git
 > > of about 2 month ago -- I could get no keyboard access for some time,
 > > although it did eventually appear.  Then the system came up normally,
 > > except that I had an app which could not initialize a modem
 > > successfully for some reason, so I went back to the former kernel and
 > > speakup.  The app is called bbbs which I use to control modem events.
 > > I suppose I could use cron, but this is much more convenient.
 > > 
 > > Any thoughts?
 > 
 > Was all of this with the dectalk express, or the soft, or both?  It's
 > important to know, so as to track down the issues.
 > 
 > Samuel

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