Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Keeping Alsa back for now?
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 02:19:48
Message-Id: 20080503021946.GA28572@linux1
In Reply to: [gentoo-accessibility] Keeping Alsa back for now? by Zachary Kline
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4 Hi Zack,
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6 you should be able to do this with /etc/portage/profile/package.mask.
7 Take a look at man 5 portage for information about this.
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9 Let me know if you have questions.
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11 On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:07:03PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
12 > Hi,
13 > I posted about this on the Speakup list, but wondered if someone with
14 > more Gentoo-specific experience might be able to help in this case.
15 > For now it seems I need to keep alsa-lib and alsa-utils at version
16 > 1.0.15, due to a bug in 1.0.16 rendering speech impossible to understand.
17 > I haven't been able to find which file I need to edit in order to do
18 > this. Ideally, it won't be necesary for very long, though I admit I'm not
19 > sure what changes Debian and/or other distros made to get it working
20 > properly again.
21 > Any tips would be appreciated. I'm probably just missing something very
22 > basic. It's been a while.
23 > Thanks,
24 > Zack.
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27 >
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30 William Hubbs
31 gentoo accessibility team lead
32 williamh@g.o
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