dectalk caveat; also apparently alsactl problem

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak charter net>]

Maybe this is already known but thought I'd post just in case.
I have dectalk software on my system which I purchased.

When I installed gnome I also installed festival but I don't really like 
festival plus it decided to overwrite the saytime program I like with its 
own version which I don't like as well. so i removed festival, though I 
suppose I could have just removed the offending saytime script.

Speech started with gnopernicus (though braille won't), apparently using 
dectalk, since I found instances of dectalk-synthes when running ps. I 
also notice these don't always seem to get killed though some of that was 
my fault when i originally was running gdm.

At any rate, at one point when I logged in to gdm speech died. Just to see 
if dectalk was okay i ran "say" from the console and was told dectalk had 
exceeded its license quota. when i got rid of gdm running at reboot and 
then rebooted without gnopernicus, "say" ran fine. So apparently there's 
a problem here.
I also found that when running gnopernicus when I'd reboot if I ran 
'alsactl restore" I got all sorts of strange warnings about value 
mismatches of various settings even though sound did work. That is also no 
longer happening 
without gdm/gnopernicus/dectalk running.

So, if i MUST run festival with gnopernicus, how do I make sure festival 
is run instead of dectalk? If i ever figure out why braille won't work I 
won't bother with the speech any more but for now i have no choice.



--
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."