a thought about Michael's weirdness

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:07:49PM -0700, Gaijin wrote:
> I 
> haven't really played around with the software synthesizer as yet, 
> because it's so slow in Orca on my system.

I think you'll find that orca is slower in general than the text
console, that's at least been the case for me. The combination of
espeak/espeakup in the text console is actually very snappy. You
shouldn't project your results with espeak/espeakup, based on your
results with orca, especially without trying espeakup/espeak first.

> 	As stated in a previous post, the "more" pager problem is pretty 
> easy to reproduce.  As root in one console, run:
> 
> # apt-cache search editor | more
> 
> 	Mark and cut a package name, switch to another console, and as 
> root, start running"
> 
> # aptitude show <pasted-packagename> | more
> 
> ...and after a few cuts and pastes, the problem should appear The first 
> console will have the wrong text, or text from the second console will 
> bleed over into the first console.

Exactly how many cuts/pastes? I just tried the procedure you described
on my system, doing 3 mark/cut/paste operations on 3 package names
which I fed to aptitude show <package> | more, and don't see the
behavior you describe. Yes, I was logged in as root on 2 consoles
while doing this. I'm running debian testing here, which is also
called squeeze/sid at the moment anyway. My synth is a doubletalk pc, and
the speakup info is:

speakup 3.1.3: initialized
synth name on entry is: dtlk
synth probe
Probing for DoubleTalk.
DoubleTalk PC: 29e-29f, ROM ver 5.74, s/n 16443, driver: 2.9

The kernel is a custom-built 2.6.29.6 with speakup and the dtlk
built-in, and soft and bns built as modules.

As for building a custom kernel, I personally grab the tarball from
kernel.org, apply speakup patches, configure it, and let
kernel-package do the rest via
make-kpkg kernel_image

I don't think I ever tried apt-src to build a kernel, though I have
used it in the past to build local versions of some debian packages. Hth.

Greg


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