Re: [orca-list] speakup not speaking

["Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I did have an issue where speakup stopped loading for me with certain 
kernels. In that particular case it turned out that the quiet option for the 
speakup module was broken and was causing an error when it loaded. This was 
in perfectly stable releases of the kernel. I believe the issue has now been 
fixed, but your distribution may still be using an affected kernel.

Some things you can try to find out what the issue is:
* Are you loading the speakup modules automatically at boot up or manually 
later with the modprobe command. What happens if you try the other?
* Are there any errors given when starting speakup. dmesg may be a useful 
command, the kernel log or may be even the output when using the modprobe 
command.
* Is any specific speakup module causing the issue? If using modprobe try 
loading speakup and then the synth specific one to rather than relying on 
modprobe to just automatically load the required speakup module.
* Are you giving any options to speakup's modules? Remember you may have 
options specified in configuration files in /etc/modprobe.d/ which I did 
forget about when trying to find the issue with the quiet option.
* What synthesiser are you using with speakup? Is the issue specific to that 
synth, is it more general or is it the only synth you can try? If it is 
software synths you are using, are you using espeakup or speechd-up? Have 
you definitely got sound configured correctly so it works from the terminal 
and gnome, particularly an issue when pulseaudio is in use.
* Finally, I nearly forgot, is speakup built in or built as modules?

Also it may be worth asking on the speakup mailing list.

As for is Linux something you can fall into with no issues, well is any 
computer system? There are certainly things with Linux I much prefer, 
however recently things such as pulseaudio have really lead linux in 
directions I do not like and probably have contributed to my decision of 
falling away from Linux in favour of other systems.

Michael Whapples

-----Original Message----- 
From: Justin Harford
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:26 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: [orca-list] speakup not speaking

Howdy all

Well I think I might have done something to speakup. I probably should not 
have, but I ran updates anyway to see what would happen. Everything seems to 
work okay, orca almost runs better, but speakup seems to have been silenced. 
It does not seem to turn on. I wonder if someone could refer me to a source 
to troubleshoot this problem. I have only found info on installing it, but I 
don't know if that is what I want to do. I might already have an 
installation of speakup, and following the online directions for installing 
from nothing might just clutter up my computer even more.

I am getting the impression that linux really isn't something that you can 
just casually walk in to, unless you just don't care to have a computer that 
runs well. I'm going to look for some "linux for dummies" manuals -- I doubt 
if they will help me with the speakup problem -- but it might be useful. 
Right now when I read online instructions, I don't really understand any of 
the terminology that they are using, so in the end the online documentation 
is proving rather useless.

Regards
Justin