Broken Paramaters in Speakup

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Steve,

I hope someone smarter than me can figure that one out. I had to kludge
a partial solution like this:

1. forget about the speakupconf save function. Also forget about normal
users being able to update the parameters. Limit it to root.

2. Start with an inherited copy of /etc/speakup/ if you are lucky
enough to have one, and make any necessary changes to its contents with
an editor.

3. run speakupconf load, note which files produce errors, and delete
them from /etc/speakup/

The result is that the files that remain in /etc/speakup/  will work
okay with speakupconf load, and that's as good as it's going to get.
I'm sure there's a better solution, but the above is how I'm surviving
until the Cavalry comes.

Chuck


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:55:14PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> With the version of speakup in the 2.6.26-1 kernel, I find that some
> of the variables or files in /sys/module/speakup/parameters/ won't
> update properly.  3 examples are the punc-some, punc-most and punc_all
> variables.  What happens is if you cat the values from a saved place
> such as is done with speakupconf, I get a slew of errors saying "cat:
> argument invalid" and the targets end up empty so what happens in my
> case is the punc_most chars get completely whiped out.  I also get
> this error if I try and cat that variable by hand so the script is ok
> here.
> 
> Also, when I do a speakupconf save I get the errors I'll show below.
> I'm using spkout as the synth of choice.
> Script started on Fri 17 Oct 2008 06:58:17 AM MST
> lnx3:~# speakupconf save
> cp: omitting directory `.'
> cp: reading `voice': Invalid argument
> cp: reading `lang': Invalid argument
> cp: reading `freq': Invalid argument
> cp: reading `silent': Operation not permitted
> lnx3:~# exit
> exit
> 
> Script done on Fri 17 Oct 2008 06:58:39 AM MST
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