need help getting fedora 6 to boot with speech

[Corey Knapp]

Hi Dug, 
I had my girlfriend go and disable apic but now the doubletalk will not
speak and I have tried the following things.
1. text speakup_synth=ltlk speakup_ser=1 and I tried 0 and 2
It boots fine from the fedora 3 boot.iso any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Corey

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:53 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: need help getting fedora 6 to boot with speech

Your system is choking before it gets to anything to do with speech. The
APIC is a programmable interrupt controller. Thats the 8259A in your system.
The 8254 mentioned is the system timer. It appears that on boot the kernel
is trying to register the system timer with the interrupt controller and
it's failing.

Note what the kernel message states: try booting with the 'noapic' option.
This is a kernel  parameter.  They can be specified at the boot prompt.

Suggestion 1:
text speakup_synth=ltlk noapic

Suggestion 2:
Get your girlfriend to boot into BIOS and disable ACPI in the BIOS, save and
exit, and boot again.

I'm betting that your system uses nvidia nforce on the system chipset. You
are not alone with this APIC error.


Corey Knapp wrote:
> Hi
> My girl friend was here and here is what she saw on the screen
>
> Timer: vector=0x31 apic1=0 Pin1=0 apic2=-1 Pin2=-1 MP-BIOS bug: 8254 
> Timer not connected to Io-APIC Trying to set up timer (IRQ0) Through 
> The 8259A.Failed Trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ.Failed 
> Trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ. Failed :( .
> Kernel Panic- not syncing: IO- Apic + timer doesn't work!  Boot with 
> apic=debug and send a report.  Then try booting with the 'noapic' option.
> Thanks in advance.
> Corey


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