From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.203]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E8FA10A48 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:39:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 25046 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2009 22:39:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (myrowa@68.18.222.46 with plain) by smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Jun 2009 22:39:38 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: tcmZp34VM1nj5Y2qjN7TAE9CqHiZX_slYl87NhR6O2u4H9lUs.BMvpQg0Mf2WPzepBqr8stpfOp1pcK653PwiLyryigGFcC7qTxsPIsvmEJQBzsNga.9E_NchymoE_exkgHHDCb05gZ2JIXSokwQsIYUj_OgXLc7ULEYz3B4c9qfHc.h.vjQMxaF2L38xPYs9wkgRJENf1v0nJRinifwNCGSf.UX59yJI0GmKNqlzULBnozvBODy..bXERTn6QPpeUR2Q4OnFNysJQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:39:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Myrow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: DECTalk question, was speakup using different synths with software speech? In-Reply-To: <0KKR00FBSSZTDTF4@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: References: <0KKR00FBSSZTDTF4@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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, 05 Jun 2009 22:39:39 -0000 I mentioned the lag problem again recently. The short and sweet version is that anything that tries to access the serial port that the Dectalk is on in any way will slow it to a crawl. For whatever reason, the HAL daemon is one such program that probes serial ports. It is quite poorly documented, and I have yet to find out if there is a way to prevent this. Since the HAL daemon is pretty much required for any work with Gnome, I have avoided it until this bug can be resolved. I'd bet some distros will probe serial ports at install time, looking for a modem or something. That would also trigger the bug.