Broken Paramaters in Speakup

[Steve Holmes]

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I was thinking of doing something like that.  I figured I would report
it here so we can see if it can be fixed or if someone can tell me
where to look, I might even take a stab at it.  I've never dealt with
kernel control variables before.  But your solution is a good
work-around for the time being.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:39:44PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> 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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