speakup serial ports

[chuckh at hhs48.com]

Hi Adam,

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:20:57PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> 

> Why not reconfigure Brltty to use ttyS4 instead?  Brltty comes up much 
> later in the boot process, and can happily deal with pretty much any port 
> you throw at it.  I've even used it once over a USB to serial converter, 
> but it was flaky in that configuration.  Since Speakup talks to the 
> hardware directly, it's really best to get Speakup working on the built-in 
> serial port, as you are much more likely to succeed.

We foolishly tried the other way, and now must figure out a recovery 
strategy. I'm a lot better at figuring stuff out after it happens than I 
am ahead of time, unfortunately. Your suggestion is what we will try 
next.

Chuck

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