Sd still crashes after libasound2 update

[Hermann]

On 01.09.2008 at 19:27:42 Jonathan Duddington <jsd at clara.co.uk> wrote:

> On 01 Sep, Hermann <meinelisten at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>>  that annoying crash of SD still persists. I still have to use "oss"
>> as SD output method.
>
>> I cannot remember whether only Espeak users face this, but if so, the
>> author of Espeak should be involved too.
>
> I have recently found a crashing bug in eSpeak, which is now fixed in
> version 1.38.03 (or later) at:
> http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html
>
> But this only affects some SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup) tags, so it's
> unlikely to make a difference which output method you use.
>
I don't think that this is the cause of the crashes. On my notebook with
Ubuntu Gutsy, there are no crashes. The difference is that Gutsy comes
with libasound2 1.0.15, which is stable. Till today there are no updates
of libasound in Gutsy, and I hope it stays that way.
Hermann

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