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

[John covici]

I am pretty sure the system was dead as I have brltty starting during
the boot sequence and it never started.  The modem issue is more
complicated as I was trying to use ttyS0 and kermit worked but bbbs
did not, but maybe its related.

on Sunday 06/29/2008 William Hubbs(w.d.hubbs at gmail.com) wrote
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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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