Re: Incomplete Sentences

["Patrick Gordon" <pcgordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have looked at all the readme files, howtos, and whatever else
instructions I can get my hands on and feel pretty confident I could rewrite
them all from memory at this point. They are all just a cut and paste of the
same information and do not cast any new light on the problem.  So, I took
the problem to a friend tonight who is a well respected computer scientist,
but has been away from the trenches for a while. We spent an hour stepping
through the Makefile trying to determine why we are getting the "command not
found" error in the make process as shown here:

# makefile install
(cd /usr/local/irqtune/sbin ; make -f /usr/local/irqtune/src/Makefile
CDEBUG='' CFLAGS_EXTRA='' IRQTUNE_HOME=/usr/local/irqtune
IRQTUNE_VERSION=0.6 INSTALL=simple INSTALLER=/usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune
SBIN=/sbin install)
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/irqtune/sbin'
/usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune -i simple /sbin /usr/local/irqtune
make[1]: /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune: Command not found
make[1]: *** [install] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/irqtune/sbin'
make: *** [install] Error 2

irqtune is present in /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/ and it does appear to be an
executable, so the "Command not found" return makes no sense.  At first we
thought that irqtune may be calling a module or library that is not
installed. So, we attempted to invoke irqtune in a way that would at least
show usage, but we still got the command not found return.

I feel somewhat vidicted now that my guru friend is as clueless as I am with
this problem, but that is a small consolation. I am tempted to do a full
recompile, but don't want to go off any new directions if I can avoid it.
Does anybody have any further ideas on this?

Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Patrick Gordon" <pcgordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:57 AM
Subject: Re: Incomplete Sentences


> Patrick Gordon writes:
>
> Check all the readme files for irqtune. The commands you are entering
> seem way to complicated for what needs to be done to me. You can try
> the following -
>
> cd /usr/local/irqtune/
> less Makefile (when I did this on an old install, there was plenty of
> instructions on what to do)
> less README (more instructions and details on how it all works).
>
> Its important to read the docs - Linux is not like windows where you
> can just run things 'out of the box'. You need to read the readme
> files and look inside things like Makefiles. Its not that Linux is not
> user friendly, its just picky about who its friendly with!
>
> Good luck.
>
> P.S. Some tips, if your installing a pre-built version, you can
> probably just cd to /usr/local/irqtune and type "make install". If you
> need to build from source, you will need to type "make warp9" to
> rebuild from source and install. However, verify this as the
> installation I have here is very old and I don't know how recently the
> package has been updated and therefore cannot tell what may have
> changed. There may also be some risks associated with doing this, so
> make sure you read the documentation.
>
> Tim
>
> Tim
> >
> > (cd /usr/local/irqtune/sbin ; make -f /usr/local/irqtune/src/Makefile
> > CDEBUG='' CFLAGS_EXTRA='' IRQTUNE_HOME=/usr/local/irqtune
> > IRQTUNE_VERSION=0.6 INSTALL=simple
INSTALLER=/usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune
> > SBIN=/sbin install)
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/irqtune/sbin'
> > /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune -i simple /sbin /usr/local/irqtune
> > make[1]: /usr/local/irqtune/sbin/irqtune: Command not found
> > make[1]: *** [install] Error 127
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/irqtune/sbin'
> > make: *** [install] Error 2
> >
> > This may not be the most appropriate place for me to ask for help on
shell
> > commands.  But again, I have only just arrived off the Microsoft farm,
know
> > nothing of Linux, and I am here just to make emacspeak functional on my
> > machine. Others on this newsgroup may have been through this already and
may
> > be able to help.. Any help in figuring out the above error in the
irqtune
> > compile, load, and link process would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > - Patrick
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "T. V. Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Patrick Gordon" <pcgordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 12:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: Incomplete Sentences
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I still suspect the interrupt settings on your sound card.
> > > To verify this, play a realaudio stream or mp3 file for more
> > > than a few minutes and see if the problem shows up.>>>>> "Patrick" ==
> > Patrick Gordon <pcgordon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > >     Patrick> I have eliminated emacs as a suspect with the
> > >     Patrick> "incomplete sentence" problem I am having.  I
> > >     Patrick> tested ViaVoice by just executing "tcl outloud"
> > >     Patrick> and got the identical problem: I hear a few
> > >     Patrick> words and then just snippets.  The sound card
> > >     Patrick> works fine in all other applications. So now it
> > >     Patrick> is narrowed down to just the outloud tcl script
> > >     Patrick> and the ViaVoice software.  Does anybody have
> > >     Patrick> any ideas where to go from here?  (Don't say
> > >     Patrick> it!  I won't give up until I conquer this
> > >     Patrick> problem!)
> > >
> > >     Patrick> Patrick
> > >
> > >     Patrick> ----- Original Message ----- From:
> > >     Patrick> "T. V. Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx> To:
> > >     Patrick> "Patrick Gordon" <pcgordon@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc:
> > >     Patrick> <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday,
> > >     Patrick> February 06, 2002 11:07 AM Subject: Incomplete
> > >     Patrick> Sentences
> > >
> > >
> > >     >> This is not an emacspeak problem --it's probably a
> > >     >> problem with your sound card.
> > >     >>
> > >     >> Also, please do not send me mail directly about
> > >     >> emacspeak --answering you in private helps only you
> > >     >> and no one else.
> > >     >>
> > >     >> Wish you luck helping your friend--
> > >     >>
> > >     >> >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Gordon
> > >     >> <pcgordon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >     >>
> > >     Patrick> Raman, I have been trying for several week to
> > >     Patrick> make emacspeak functional for a blind friend of
> > >     Patrick> mine with the hope that it will open up
> > >     Patrick> Internet for her, but I seem to have hit a
> > >     Patrick> wall. I can't get emacspeak to speak more than
> > >     Patrick> a few words in a sentence before slowing to an
> > >     Patrick> incoherent crawl. For example, in the sentence:
> > >     Patrick> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
> > >     Patrick> it speaks just the first three words normally
> > >     Patrick> and then I can hear only brief snippets of each
> > >     Patrick> remaining word as it continues very slowly
> > >     Patrick> through the rest of the line.  I can move the
> > >     Patrick> cursor through the text word by word with no
> > >     Patrick> problem, it just cannot handle moving by
> > >     Patrick> multiple words or sentences.  From the
> > >     Patrick> twenty-thousand feet level, It seems as though
> > >     Patrick> the output buffer just is not big enough. Do
> > >     Patrick> you have any ideas or suggestions on this?  I
> > >     Patrick> have posed the problem to the listserv group,
> > >     Patrick> but to no avail.  I have also posted the
> > >     Patrick> problem on linux newsgroups and got no respones
> > >     Patrick> whatsoever.
> > >     >>
> > >     Patrick> My system is a 333Mz 128MB Dell Latitude CPt
> > >     Patrick> running RH Linux 7.2.  I've installed Emacs 21,
> > >     Patrick> Emacspeak 15.0, and IBM's Text-To-Speech
> > >     Patrick> product ViaVoice following the installation
> > >     Patrick> instructions at
> > >     Patrick>
> > >     Patrick>
> >
http://www.redhat.com/services/techsupport/accessibility/s1-access-install.h
> > >     Patrick> tml.
> > >     >>
> > >     Patrick> Patrick
> > >     >>
> > >     >> --
> > >     >> Best Regards, --raman
> > >     >>
> > >     >>
> > >     >> Email: raman@xxxxxxxxxxx WWW:
> > >     >> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/ AIM: TVRaman
> > >     >> PGP: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.asc
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > > --
> > > Best Regards,
> > > --raman
> > >
> > >
> > > Email:  raman@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > WWW: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/
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