speakup-r functionality

[John Covici]

I think speech dispatch/speechd-up do something different with regard
to indexing -- they don't actually use index marks like a serial
synth, so my guess is that it works differently.

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 13:26:50 -0400,
Okash Khawaja wrote:
> 
> Okay I tested with the file you sent and as you described, but
> couldn't replicate. If it does behave differently with serial synth
> then it _could_ be that another issue has been exposed by this change.
> I don't have a functional serial synth which supports indexing. I will
> look into fixing my doubletalk lt.
> 
> Just to be sure, following is the patch which breaks speakup-r?
> 
> ---
>  drivers/staging/speakup/main.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/main.c
> @@ -1408,7 +1408,8 @@ static void read_all_doc(struct vc_data
>   cursor_track = read_all_mode;
>   spk_reset_index_count(0);
>   if (get_sentence_buf(vc, 0) == -1) {
> - kbd_fakekey2(vc, RA_DOWN_ARROW);
> + del_timer(&cursor_timer);
> + start_read_all_timer(vc, RA_DOWN_ARROW);
>   } else {
>   say_sentence_num(0, 0);
>   synth_insert_next_index(0);
> 
> Thanks,
> Okash
> 
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 5:12 PM, John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > In my latest test, it still did not work.  I will send you a file to
> > test with.  I started  at the beginning of the file, went to line 25
> > and hit control and the cursor was at line 198.  Now it might work
> > differently with speech dispatcher, you probably should use a serial
> > synth to test.  Without the speakup-r empty line fix, it does work.
> >
> > On Mon, 29 May 2017 05:50:33 -0400,
> > Okash Khawaja wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 06:38:39PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> >> > I just have one question -- how did it work with the old serial i/o
> >> > system?
> >> In main.c, handle_cursor_read_all calls spk_get_index_count which calls
> >> spk_ttyio_in_nowait or spk_serial_in_nowait depending on whether TTY or
> >> old serial i/o is in use. So the difference is in spk_serial_in_nowait
> >> as the layers above that are identical. spk_serial_in_nowait returns 0
> >> when there is no data on rx. spk_ttyio_in_nowait immitates that but due
> >> to the signedness bug, it was returning 0xff instead of 0 when there
> >> is no data.
> >>
> >> With the fix, now both serial i/o and TTY stacks  should have same
> >> behaviour.
> >
> > --
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> >          John Covici
> >          covici at ccs.covici.com

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