From: Alexander Epaneshnikov <aarnaarn2@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Orjales <adriorjalesvidal31@gmail.com>
Cc: speakup@linux-speakup.org
Subject: Re: Espeakup, arch and systemd
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:36:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220423143610.qusgycnzz6kmwkg3@alex-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE600ubv2JZJM477hCMutMX=J4tGUzJfFg5Ata2ymQQiqN=ueQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 04:15:38PM +0200, Adrian Orjales wrote:
> Hello all
hello.
> I am trying to build my own OS based on Arch Linux, but I am having some
> problems with the screen reader.
> I have an arch linux fresh installation, with systemd, espeakup and
> espeak-ng installed with pacman.
> After installing the espeakup package, I noticed that the system was very
> slow on boot, and some times espeakup did not wake up after boot.
> After some research, I've discovered that the cause of the slow boot was
> that the systemd espeakup service unit uses systemd-udev-settle.service and
> waits for it to end to start, to ensure all hardware is discovered.
> But as I've read, this operation is very discouraged because the
> udev-settle discover process is asynchronous and it slows down the boot
> process.
to be honest, I'm not sure that the slowdown in booting is due to this.
> Furthermore, when this service ends, espeakup has the same problem,
> sometimes it talks, sometimes it is not able to talk.
> The problem of no speech is solved if I run systemctl reload espeakup &&
> systemctl start espeakup manually from command line.
did you set the default sound card?
> Now, I have tried removing the wants and requires of
> systemd-udev-settle.service and left only the sound.target. The slow boot
> is solved, but espeakup does not start properly, and I don't know how can I
> solve this.
I'm afraid it's not possible to get rid of udev-setle.target without changes in espeakup.
> One of the info that I've found says that sometimes, systemd sound.target
> unlocks the awaiting services when the first sound card is detected, but I
> have a Nvidia gpu that is detected as a soundcard, but alsa's default card
> is my onboard intel hda.
> I know that this list is about speakup, not espeakup, but I'm sure that you
> like me know that we are not much people talking about these topics and is
> difficult to find help.
> Thanks in advance
--
Sincerely, Alexander
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