From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from opera.rednote.net (opera.rednote.net [IPv6:2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe70:e783]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 358ED1EF748 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:49:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from concerto.rednote.net ([IPv6:2601:a:3780:1f:be5f:f4ff:fe45:6a6e]) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.7/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r4AHnRQL024725 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 17:49:27 GMT Received: from concerto.rednote.net (concerto.rednote.net [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.14.7/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r4AHnQSB026648 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:49:26 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r4AHnQYU026647 for speakup@linux-speakup.org; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:49:26 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: concerto.rednote.net: janina set sender to janina@rednote.net using -f Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:49:26 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: Re: Any News on cut-and-paste bug? Message-ID: <20130510174926.GD3601@concerto.rednote.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 3.8.11-200.fc18.x86_64 X-PGP-Key: http://rednote.net/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 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: Fri, 10 May 2013 17:49:29 -0000 Cut and paste hasn't been a problem for me on Fedora 18 kernels since the patch went in. Janina Kirk Reiser writes: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Hart Larry wrote: > > >Quite some months ago Bill Acker suggested I login as an > >ssh localhost > >on each console where I would want to cut-and-paste. Well, > >actually unless there were a way for this anoyance to just ruin 1 > >tty instead of freeze an entire machine? I also suppose having a > >script on bootup log us in a localhost. > >This bug just comes so suddenly, no warning--and-best as we can > >tell all activity stops. > > As far as I know, Chris Brannon submitted a patch to fix the > cut-and-paste lock-up bug somewhere around 3.2.x. I don't know if that > patch ever made it into the kernel speakup version or not. > > >I realize-and-appreciate that we have an active community, many > >who are knowledgeable, ETC. But it almost seems Speakup may join > >YASR as having gotten at a certain level-and-thats it. > > Without new blood interested in taking speakup further, you may very > well be correct. > > >I've been on this list since 2003, but now for `quite some time I > >still cannot move up past 2.632 as I would have no DecTalk speech. > >I think John Heim wrote a patch to fix this, but I have no idea > >what steps will install? > >And lastly, still about the DecTalk, if we can ever produce a log > >showing commands which Speakup is sending, James says he can > >assist. > > Unless someone decides to take on writing external drivers for USB and > RS232C synths, you will never see a DECTalk Express fix. The only > support over the past few years has been for the softsynth version of > speakup. There have been a few serial fixes but they have been more of > an aside than anything else. The serial synth substructure is terribly > out of date and nobody appears to be willing to rewrite it. > > > -- > Well that's it then, colour me gone! > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/