SD crashes continue in libasound2 0.18 too

[Hermann]

On 01.12.2008 at 18:49:39 Nath <nath.ml at free.fr> wrote:
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>> > With a sblive and ibmtts there are no problems on my machine.
>> > Maybe the problem is related to espeak output module?
>> >
>> I think so, since using Espea-generic doesn't end up in crashes, but
>> that's obvious, since it outputs via aplay.
>> Unfortunately I'm not able to test other speech engines, cause they
>> don't have German as selectable language, so I'm tied to Espeak.
>> I use a SBPCI 128 sound card, the same manufacturer as SBlive.
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> Here I'm on Ubuntu hardy so with libasound2 1.0.17 and I have also
> frequently crashes, in fact crashes happened every 1 or 2 minutes. I use
> espeak module. I tried with espeak-generic module but with this module
> the speech driver included in brltty doesn't read every lines when I use
> the up and down arrows to read text.
>
Does it do this with Espeak? Did you activate autospeak in Brltty?
Maybe check your espeak-generic.conf.

> I don't know exactly where is the problem : in speech-dispatcher, in
> espeak module, in espeak, in brltty-s speech driver ?
>
Does it happen on the GUI too?
I guess it has nothing to do with the SD-driver by Brltty, because I
observe the same when using Suse-Blinux with SD. So I guess it is a
conflict between libasound and SD.

> One thing I noticed : When crashes happens there is often an uppercase
> caracter in the last words which are spoken just before the crash. What
> do you think about that ? Perhaps espeak problem ?
> Do you notice the same ?
>
No, I've not noticed any special event before the crash. On my machine
it happens during continuous reading.
Hermann