Is Speakup still Broken?

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Sat Oct 25 20:10:13 EDT 2003


On another machine using an Accent PC internal, All went fine and I'm
using it right now.  So I wonder if something broke specifically with
spkout driver or serial communications in general?

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:52:47PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I just checked out Speakup this morning and it patched / compiled just
> fine with a linux 2.4.21 kernel.  However, It boots with no speech and
> this is the error I see in /var/log/syslog:
> Oct 25 14:36:11 lnx3 kernel: spkout: device probe failed
> My config options mean for speakup and the spkout features to be
> included statically and most all other options are set to "n" and the
> default synth is set to "spkout".  It is the normal config I've been
> using for other 2.4.21 compiles all along.  I just now added the final
> new speakup deck talk pc option by specifying "n".
> 
> Anyhow, is there any reason this fails now? is this part of the recent
> break previously mentioned on the list yesterday?
> 
> Thank God for my previous kernel I'm now using.
> 
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