From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8731EF08B for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 09:46:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B39A87E002 for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 08:45:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mta1.math.wisc.edu Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (charlie.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rv57Vpp+T72y for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 08:45:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6F987E001 for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 08:45:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on charlie.math.wisc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=6.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (erdos.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.25]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 08:45:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [144.92.166.19] (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C9A0540075 for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 08:45:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51811C92.4020104@math.wisc.edu> Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 08:45:54 -0500 From: "John G. Heim" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Any News on cut-and-paste bug? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 01 May 2013 13:46:14 -0000 A big part of the problem is that even if someone is willing to take on writing fixes for speakup, the kernel people won't cooperate. I tried to get some help/advice from the linux kernel list on implementing the bug fix I had for serial synths. Their advice -- start over. PS: I think that particular bug got fixed for real by someone who knows way more about the speakup code than I do. I'm running a 3.2 kernel from squeeze backports and the bbug is fixed. On 05/01/13 07:27, Kirk Reiser wrote: > 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. > >