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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: <9382.1367414022@ccs.covici.com> <17720.1367417454@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <17720.1367417454@ccs.covici.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: speakup@braille.uwo.ca, covici@ccs.covici.com 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 15:50:13 -0000 You mean skype? On 05/01/13 09:10, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I would like to have a conference call with those interested in > developing speakup, even if they don't have much time -- maybe we can at > least sort out what things should happen, etc. I like that much better > than Email exchanges! > > covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >> I have the cut and paste patch, but it was eventually put in the >> kernel. There is a work around for using serial synths in newer >> kernels, although there seems to be some problems in and around 3.7. I >> have wanted to figure this all out, but my time ... >> >> 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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Well that's it then, colour me gone! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> -- >> Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: >> How do >> you spend it? >> >> John Covici >> covici@ccs.covici.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >