Re: Gnopernicus Sending Output to Serial Device Crashes Hardware Synthesizer

[remus draica <rd baum ro>]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 04:22, Beth Hatch wrote:


Hi,

The behavior described is very strange. I tried to reproduce it, but without success. Please try the patch attached to bug 167221 and send back the output.

Regards,
Remus

> Hello everyone,
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>     I would like to let you all know that I have just placed the > following bug report on Bugzilla: Bug 167221] New: Gnopernicus sends > output to serial devices even when Braille is disabled.  
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>     I have been told by a colleague that he had tried to file this > particular bug on the Bugzilla site with Lynx but had very little > success due to the number of tables and other elements of the web > interface.  I'm sure that what I'm going to say now is not the best > thing to say on a Linux list,<smile> but I was only able to make > Bugzilla work when I used Internet Explorer 6 and JAWS 6.0, my Windows > screen reader.  Since it has come to my attention that some users who > are blind have had difficulty in using Bugzilla with Lynx, I wanted to > let you know how I was able to make it work.
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>     Now, on to the problem at hand.  I have just experienced a problem > wherein Gnopernicus sends information to my hardware synthesizer > connected on serial comm port 1, thereby causing it to be unusable.  > The synthesizer is a Dectalk USB which also has a serial port.  I use > this synthesizer for both my Linux Fedora machine and my Windows > machine.  I have just installed Fedora core 3 on a new computer and > was testing it with the Dectalk USB hooked up for the synthesizer in > console mode and Festival for support via software speech in > Gnopernicus.  I have not enabled Braille in Gnopernicus.  When > Gnopernicus was run from the accessibility options, it sent a great > deal of garbage to the Dectalk.  I've updated the firmware on the unit > three times, and now it no longer works with either one of my > computers in Linux or Windows.
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>     It seems the only thing I can do now is to send my synthesizer in > for repairs and borrow another device so that I can use my Linux > machine.  I wanted others to know about this problem in hopes that it > can be fixed.  If there is no Braille device, probing for such a > device should not be allowed to totally wipe out a hardware > synthesizer.  I never thought this would cause any problem since > Gnopernicus doesn't yet use the hardware synthesizer, but now I'm > stuck without my Dectalk USB.
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>     Any thoughts or comments would be most appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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> Beth
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