experience with speakup git of today tusing 2.6.25-gentoo-r5

[William Hubbs]

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On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 06:52:59PM -0400, John covici wrote:
> OK, so I tried the latest speakup git with kernel 2.6.25 gentoo
> sources and the following happened:
> 
> I  had speakout module built in and soft and dectalk express as
> modules.  Now the first time I booted, I let it talk without pressing
> any keys and it eventually hung somewhere, i.e. lost speech and the
> system was dead or crashed.

Are you sure it was dead or crashed, or did you just lose speech?  The
reason I ask is you might have come across the  issue that happens when
we time out too many times waiting for the synth to tell us it can
receive more data -- after it times out so many times we  assume that
someone has turned off the synth and put it in an unavailable status.

> Then I rebooted and for quite a while --
> unlike my present kernel which is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 and a speakup  git
> of about 2 month ago -- I could get no keyboard access for some time,
> although it did eventually appear.  Then the system came up normally,
> except that I had an app which could not initialize a modem
> successfully for some reason, so I went back to the former kernel and
> speakup.  The app is called bbbs which I use to control modem events.
> I suppose I could use cron, but this is much more convenient.
 
The modem issue sounds like it might be the "floating serial ports" issue
reported in Bugs.txt.

William

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