speakup 3.0.4 is out

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Jun 1 11:53:55 EDT 2009


Adam Myrow, le Sun 31 May 2009 19:08:39 -0500, a écrit :
> To reproduce it, simply echo something to the serial port that 
> the Dectalk is on.

Then don't do it :)  That is a basic flaw in the way speakup is
currently done: it doesn't interfere correctly with using the serial
port with other applications.

> I originally noticed this because of the HAL daemon, (hald.)          
> Apparently, it opens serial ports during its initial startup.

Augh.  I wonder the reason why they do such things, it can not but
interfere with a lot of things.

Samuel



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