Re: gnome-speech stability with the DECtalk driver

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.  I believe I have managed to prove the DECtalk driver is the problem
and not Gnopernicus.
I configured Gnopernicus to use the DECtalk driver and ran it until I
lost speech.  When speech died, I switched to a text console and ran "ps
aux|grep srcore".  Srcore was still running.  I then tried to run
test-speech and chose the DECtalk driver.  Test-speech couldn't activate
the DECtalk driver.  I didn't capture the exact error, if needed I can
duplicate the experiment and get an exact error.
When I lost speech, I was in a folder of playlists.  I had no problem
selecting and playing any of the files without speech.  Lucky for me,
the files all start with different letters and the Gnome media players
both use control-q to exit.  
After making sure Gnome and srcore hadn't crashed, I logged out and
tryed to log in and restart gnopernicus.  I got no speech from
Gnopernicus.  A "ps aux|grep srcore from a text console showed
gnopernicus had started.
I closed Gnopernicus and switched to the text
console and used kill to remove all the gnome-speech processes.  After
that I could get speech again from Gnopernicus.

I did this using Gnopernicus 0.9, Gnome-speech 0.3.6, running Gnome 2.8.
My system is running Debian unstable with the latest updates.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny