Re: everything installed but no speech

[Thomas Ward <slingshooter valkyrie net>]

Hi. Speakup shouldn't be a problem.You can always kill or restore speakup 
on a 
terminal by pressing the sscroll lock key.
If the keymap causes any problems with gnopernicus use loadkeys to load a 
us keymap before 
launching gnopernicus.

 Hth.

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi Nath,
> 
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Nath wrote:
> 
> > I suggest you to modify your .xinitrc file as follow :
> >
> > festival --server &
> > sawfish &
> > gnome-terminal &
> > gnome-session &
> > exec gnopernicus
> >
> > I think the "exec" line must be the last line in the file because it means
> > that after running the app following the "exec" word, all is finished. Then
> > when you will exit gnopernicus all the things will be terminated.
> 
> I made that change, but the result was the same. I have identical
> output from the startx script except for process ID numbers.
> 
> I wonder if there may be conflicts due to my present screen
> access method, which is to use the speakup kernel patches with an
> external hardware synthesizer. I notice that once I run startx,
> the keypad remains in control of the speakup system. I can move
> the speakup review cursor up and down but not left or right, and
> it will let me check cursor position and speak the character
> under the cursor (always "white space" ascii 255). This surprises
> me.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
>