Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty

[Mike Gorse <mgorse mgorse dhs org>]

Hi all,

I have also had orca stop talking when it and yasr (via eflite) were both 
trying to talk at the same time.

It appears to be a bug in gnome-speech or espeak.  Only one device can 
write to /dev/dsp at a time.  The gnome-speech espeak driver normally 
opens it when it is writing to it and then closes it, but, if it is unable 
to write to it because another process is using it, it sometimes opens the 
device and does not close it.  (Perhaps it doesn't record that it still 
has the device open and later tries to open it but can't because it 
already has it open.)

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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:

> hi willie and all listers,
>
> willie, I heard you say you had a feisty machine. could you confirm if
> feisty stops speaking if you happen to play an audio file?
>
> second, how much does it take feisty to boot, mine takes as twice as windows
> xp does.
>
> let me explain: I can see that the logo goes out quickly, but then it takes
> so long until the login screen appears. is this normal?
>
> I have 3gb processor, 1 gb ram, intel d945board, and builtin realtek high
> deffinition audio chipset, and the intel extreme graphics builtin VGA.
>
> thanks alot.
> Mohammed al-shar'