[orca-list] Fw: Potential conflict between emacspeak with hardware synth and Orca

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

I'm forwarding this message from the emacspeak list in case anyone else 
comes across this problem.  This is certainly a work around, although I'm 
not convinced the assessment of the problem is complete, since I can run 
both together under X if both are using a software synthesizer.

Admittedly, I don't know the code of either program, but the only reason I 
can see for the freeze is a conflict over resources.  Yet, since emacspeak 
is using a hardware synthesizer and Orca is using a software synthesizer, I 
can't figure out what resources might be the source of the conflict--I 
haven't compiled any software synthesizers for emacspeak on the machine in 
question. Any ideas?

Thanks,

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. V. Raman" <raman users sf net>
To: <deprice cs utah edu>
Cc: <emacspeak cs vassar edu>; <William Walker Sun COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:32 PM
Subject: Potential conflict between emacspeak with hardware synth and Orca


> 1) Are you running Emacspeak at the console or under X?
> If doing the latter, things are well-night impossible because
> orca does not fall silent when emacs has focus.
>
> The simplest thing to do is to run emacspeak on a virtual
> console, and run ORCA under X --- switch to the virtual console
> running Emacs when you want to use emacspeak. Things work in this
> configuration which is how I use it.
>
> > > > > > "David" == David E Price <deprice cs utah edu> writes:
>    David> Hi, I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy and trying to run both
>    David> emacspeak and Orca. I want to use my DECTalk Express
>    David> with emacspeak and a software synth with
>    David> Orca. However, if I have both Orca and emacspeak
>    David> running and try to switch between emacs and another
>    David> application, everything freezes. I either have to use
>    David> a remote machine to kill emacspeak or Orca, or I have
>    David> to restart the X server. This problem also occurs if I
>    David> am using the emacspeak speech server inside Orca--in
>    David> effect, both programs are using the DECTalk Express.
>    David>
>    David> Is anyone successfully using emacspeak with a hardware
>    David> synthesizer and Orca?  If so, any suggestions for
>    David> working around my problem?
>    David>
>    David> Thanks,
>    David>
>    David> dave
>
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