Possibly Related to Keypad Issue

[Sean McMahon]

How do you check for interupt conflicts or colusions on the serial line as you
put it?  Is that info something that shows up in dmesg?
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: Possibly Related to Keypad Issue


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> This reminds me of a problem I had some while back when I had some
> interrupt conflicts on my '486 with IDE controlers.  Be sure you
> aren't getting any messages that say something like, "Loss of
> interrupt streaming" or something to that effect.  I also ran into
> some extreme sluggishnes recently when I started getting some strange
> communication errors with my hard drive but then that mess was
> accompanied with a bunch of I/O errors and having to re-tune my file
> system amazingly, I didn't lose a single file during that crisis.
> Since then, I haven't had any more problems.  But I digressed; it
> sounds like some kind of hardware issue to me.  When you press a key,
> you cause speakup to send a "shut up" command to the synth.  I don't
> remember what kind of synth you're using but if it is serial by
> chance, there could be some possible collision on the serial line.  Be
> sure and verify your communications parameters on your synth; I
> believe Speakup uses hardware handshaking in all synths except for the
> old Dectalk.
>
> HTH.
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0700, Zachary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have been a bit more successful in attempting to use the unresponsive
> > keypad.  Not much, not enough to work, but a bit.
> > I have noticed the following message, which I suspect may have something to
> > do with the problem, being sent to my Dectalk Express on /dev/ser0:
> > Timeout Flush
> > Possibly this is related to the distribution itself, not the problem.  I
> > don't know, at this point I just want something that works.
> > Basically what happens is that when I boot up an installation cd, the
> > program speaks fine.  Reads all kernel messages, etc.
> > However, I press a key, any key, and things fall apart.  The keypad and
> > entire keyboard becomes sluggish, unusably so.  I cannot do anything and
> > expect a response.  The speakup program seems to be extremely slow.  It
> > acknowledges every action, eventually.  But it takes it's time about it.
> > Any help is greatly appreciated,
> > Zack
> >
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