Speak starts in CPU loop on OLPC 13.1.0 os1

[greenfeld]

Speak-42 starts up in a CPU loop in 13.1.0 os1, and never really displays anything graphical.

It speaks its opening phrase and may eventually get to something you type but seems to be spinning CPU otherwise.

[humitos]

I don't have the solution yet, but I found some differences between 12.1.0 (working) and 13.1.0 (not working) with the same Speak version:

• XO-1.75, 12.1.0 os21
  • Speak v42 works properly
  • I can import gst espeak plugin

    >>> import gst
    >>> gst.element_factory_make('espeak')
    <__main__.GstEspeak object (espeak0) at 0x1a20cd0>
    

  • RPM: gstreamer-plugins-espeak-0.3.5-2.fc17.i686

• XO-1.5, 13.1.0 os6
  • Speak v42 does not work (CPU issue)
  • I can't import gst espeak plugin

    >>> import gst
    >>> gst.element_factory_make('espeak')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    gst.ElementNotFoundError: espeak
    

  • RPM: gstreamer-plugins-espeak-0.4.0-1.fc18.i686

• Desktop, Fedora 17. sugar-build
  • Speak v42 works properly
  • RPM: gstreamer-plugins-espeak-0.3.5-2.fc17.x86_64
  • I can import gst espeak plugin

[humitos]

After a long research we found the problem. It has to do with cairo and the way that context.arc was being used. The angle was given in degrees and .arc function needs radians. So, it was taking a lot of time (up to 8 seconds) to draw an arc with 360 radians.

I'm uploading a patch that fix this in Speak v42 (gtk2)

The problem between the different version of the builds (12.1.0 and 13.1.0) could be related with the cairo version. It seems the new cairo version doesn't work well with the angle in degrees.

12.1.0 -> cairo-1.10.2-7.fc17.i686
13.1.0 -> cairo-1.12.4-1.fc18.i686

[godiard]

Fixed an available in Speak 43

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 0.98 deleted