From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lakermmtao06.cox.net ([68.230.240.33]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DAguy-00070B-00 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:11:00 -0500 Received: from kasil ([68.0.221.166]) by lakermmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050314041026.STAT21504.lakermmtao06.cox.net@kasil> for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:10:26 -0500 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.308 [266.7.2]); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:10:20 -0500 Message-ID: <01e101c5284b$bcc87840$0601a8c0@kasil> From: "Kyrath. \(AKA Rob\)" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <033201c5258d$26e58680$0601a8c0@kasil><001101c525dd$a8d5a120$220110ac@jim> <20050313181210.GB20633@blackbox> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:10:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: festival X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 04:11:00 -0000 Ok, great. This is exactly what I came across somewhere. However, I was under the impression that *trashing* the synth meant to actually break it, like perhaps destroying the firmware. I was just concerned about killing this synth, especially since its a borrowed one. -- Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 1:12 PM Subject: Re: festival > Hi. > > There is a bug that can trash your hardware synth on com 1, but it should > only be a problem once. It only happens when you first set up > Gnopernicus for a new user. > > Basically: when you select "enable screen reader" in the assistive > technology dialog in desktop preferences, the defaults for Gnopernicus > will be switched to ones that include a braille display connected to com > 1. Just go into the startup preferences dialog of Gnopernicus and > disable braille support to get Gnopernicus to stop messing with the com > port. After you do this, you can switch to a text console and get the > synth back. > To get the synth back, just change the speakup default to none, power > cycle the synth, and then return the speakup default to the hardware > synth. > > The bug has been reported, and it should be fixed "soon". Like I said, > it only happens when you first set up Gnopernicus, it won't happen again > and it won't happen on a system that just runs Gnome without > Gnopernicus. > > Hope this helps. > Kenny > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:57:12PM -0800, jim grimsby wrote: >> Hi, no >> The problem is when you run gnome whith the screen reader for gnome both >> of >> them as far as I know it kills your speech device because it only >> understands that a Braille display is on the serial port. Hth >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca >> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] >> On Behalf Of Kyrath. (AKA Rob) >> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:21 AM >> To: Speakup >> Subject: festival >> >> >> In the course of reading various documentation, I came across a warning >> that >> compiling festival, or perhaps some other program that requires festival, >> can potentially kill a hardware synth. >> >> Is this a true risk? >> I'm looking to compile festival on a slackware 10.1 system with a >> doubletalk >> synth. >> >> -- Rob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >