[PROBLEM]: IPv6 ICMP Ancillary Data IPV6_PKTINFO sendmsg() invalid argument

2016-12-02 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi All, First post here; any pointers or improvements for bug reporting are welcome. [1.] One line summary of the problem: sendmsg() with ancillary data of type IPV6_PKTINFO fails with invalid argument and further possible memory corruption. - [2.] Full

super-low-cost SoC ASIC component

2011-06-05 Thread Thomas Lloyd
For anyone interested OpenCores is attempting to produce an OpenRISC ASIC see here: http://opencores.org/donation Help OpenCores create a super-low-cost SoC ASIC component based on the OpenRISC processor. This ASIC will then be offered for sale to the community to use freely in any products,

ipod

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Check out rockbox. www.rockbox.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

AUDIO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (angelo)

2010-08-30 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi Angelo, Sorry I have been ever so lacks at reading the mailing list and have only just seen your reference to my open sapi project. The project has ground to a halt a the moment through lack of time and effort on my part. I am only only one developing on the project and have not seen any

How and where to develop

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi Pia, Thought i would point you in the direction of Vinux that is ubuntu based. They are welcoming contributions that improve accessibility and I am sure could benefit from your efforts. Ubuntu are making noises about including some of there developments into the main distro but I ave no

New/bored developers

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi Lesley, Slightly selfish of myself I could do with a month or so input from a C/C++ guy for a speech dispatcher to opensapi interface. This is basically writing a middle man to handle messages and audio data from the SAPI engine into speech dispatcher and pulse. Anyone else go some bandwidth

Who maintains Rivet

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi List, Who currently maintains Rivet if anyone. Do people have an opinion of how sustainable Rivet is into the future? Tom - To unsubscribe, e-mail: rivet-dev-unsubscr...@tcl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Who maintains Rivet

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Well that is impressive I like the site What I am trying to do is probably too complicated based on my skill level. I have taken Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as it is supported for the next three years. Maybe a bad choice. It is officially released at the end of the Month. I have got Rivet to Compile

Compiling on 8.04 and package to install on 10.04

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi Guys, Can I package rivet up on Ubuntu 8.04 into a deb and then install it on 10.04 or is that very bad practise. They are both using tcl 8.4 as default? Still no joy on 10.04 with compiling. Tom - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

unimrcp.org

2010-03-21 Thread Thomas Lloyd
http://www.unimrcp.org/announcements/acapelaspeechsynthesispoweredbyunimrcpopensourceproject -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Session Database

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi Massimo, Again your right about mysqltcl. I am working on two systems one at work and one at home testing my set-up in both locations. I thought I had installed mysqltcl at both locations. I had not at home where I was getting this error message. Not knowing how DIO works also threw me. So I

Sound issues 10.04

2010-02-25 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi Guys, Just got 10.04 running in a virtual machine. I have some sound output issues, which is a big stumbling block. The sound under wine seem to drop out for about one second and then cut back in. I am using this for tts generation so if you can imagine that I am getting This a test of the

Re: Sound issues 10.04

2010-02-25 Thread Thomas Lloyd
The possibilities are endless but to give us a bit of a clue I think it is a pulseaudio issue that is fixed by using the experimental packages found in Neils ppa. https://launchpad.net/~neil-aldur I just added the ppa and updated the software from it, I was not paying that much attention but i

Speech Dispatcher Woes

2010-02-16 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi All, Here is a quick question for the speechd/orca guys. I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with the latest git version of speechd built today. What I am experiencing at the moment is that about five seconds after running orca I get the message that something has hung and orca exits. This only seems an

Re: Donations to Ubuntu accessibility

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Well maybe there could be an open source accessibility charity started that hold the funds. This could be used to help fund projects that are seen to better accessibility in the open source community. I use my project as an example if there was a strong opinion around the community that a large

Wrong audfio system?

2010-02-05 Thread Thomas Lloyd
:D I have seen a mention of my project by someone who matters. Thanks Luke even if it was in passing. At least someone knows about it. The point of progress is mean to improve the overall experience for users of any system but there is always a time where some users do not see all the benefits

Karmic Praise

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Lloyd
I want to befend karmic as not being so horrible and useless as everyone likes to make out. In my opinion pulse audio has been a great addition to Ubuntu. For my project open-sapi now out performs e-speak making for a smooth and responsive desktop experience when using text to speech with orca.

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-09 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Keeping on the idea of touch screen accessibility, could there be a set-up process, after the first install the device be set-up in grid mode, and the user be presented with an option to use grid or absolute depending if they push the top of the screen or the bottom section? Could that be

SAPI in Ubuntu

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Please check out my Project here: http://code.google.com/p/open-sapi/ Give me an idea of what your trying to do and i can give you some help. SAPI 5 is working but it is stable enough yet for use as an alternative to the current speech engines in Linux whne used with a screen reader. Tom --

Cygwin / Dragon / SAPI / Linux

2009-06-30 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi, Not sure if you have tried Cygwin but that does allow you to open both a full gnome desktop and individual applications within windows and in theory should allow you to control the system remotely over ssh via Dragon. You can run the system full screen and you would not know that you were

Advanced Solution

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Lloyd
To add to the beep feature discussion in WM6 when you have lots of contacts and start scrolling through them for a few seconds you get a large letter appear on the screen which you then scroll through the alphabet rather than the contacts. This allows you to jump to the contact beginning with that

End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Usecase: I am using rockbox with voice files i have each file with a voice tag, I want to get to a song beginning with S. Lets say we have 1000 songs, I can scroll and then stop periodically to listen to my current location (slow). I will know when i am near or far away from the song i want. We

New blind developer / Rockbox / rbutility / Accessibilty / Linux / Gnome / Orca / SAPI

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi All, Due to the brilliant work from the Sansa V2 team on here i am running rockbox again. I was a real time systems developer who lost his sight in 2006. Now I dedicate my time to improve accessibility for people with sight loss. The Rockbox project is unique for its consideration of the

PulseAudio pesistent volume

2009-03-16 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Any ideas how to get PulseAudio to save the last volume level at logout and when the next user sessions loads it will set the master volume back to the same level. At the moment it sets it back to 100% each time. Now I have switched off the login sounds to save my ears and sanity. Tom --

Microsofts speech engines in Ubuntu

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Hi All Just checking in again to give a small progress report and let you know what is going on or not as the case might be. I have managed to get the whole system working, identify the bugs in wine and have workable solutions. At the moment the command line interface is about 50% done the

Re: Vibuntu the most accessible Ubuntu Linux live cd for the Visually Impaired EVA III

2008-12-14 Thread Thomas Lloyd
I also agree that the claim of the first accessible Linux is a tad far fetched and maybe the most accessible Ubuntu Linux live cd for the Visually Impaired. Is more accurate? We all fall victim to claims of self grandeur at times, especially when it our baby. I think that the proof is in the

Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6

2008-12-08 Thread Thomas Lloyd
I think this information might find a useful place on the homepage for the distro. Tom KEYSTROKES... What follows is a list of keystrokes you can use to control the screen-reader and magnification software. I will only provide a few basic keystrokes for Orca to get you started as