Hi to all
Al, try to disable the ESD sound system. Goto the menu, system,
preferences, sound and uncheck the checkbox using ESD.
Regards,
Javier.
:On Sun, Jul 09,
2006 at 11:32:05PM -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm seeing some really major weirdness on my dapper system, I believe with
> gnome-speech, but I'm not even sure whether gnome-speech itself is the
> culprit.
>
> Basically, what happens is that upon booting my machine, I log into gnome,
> and then get no speech when attempting to run Orca or gnopernicus, either
> with Festival or Fonix DECtalk.
>
> A couple interesting points. This issue does not occur 100% of the time. If
> I reboot 5 times, I would say 4 out of the 5 times, I get no speech, and then
> the fifth time, everything is fine. When the problem does occur, if I issue
> the reboot command from a virtual console, then speech momentarily starts as
> processes are being shut down.
>
> If I run test-speech before ever logging into X, both Festival and DECtalk
> consistently work as expected.
> I've tried rebuilding gnome-speech, but to no avail.
> i'm typically not one to shy away from a bit of troubleshooting, but the
> frustrating thing is that I really don't have anything to sink my teeth into.
> I have spoken to others who have had similar problems, but for the most
> part, the lack of speech seems to be the exception rather than the rule,
> where as on my system, the opposite is the case.
>
> If anyone can offer ideas, they would be very much appreciated. At this
> point, I'm becoming increasingly tempted to torch the whole thing and simply
> reinstall, but I hate leaving problems like this unresolved.
>
> --Al
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