What is .WITH. the Debian amd64 kernel and SpeakUP?

[Gaijin]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:38:10AM -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> 1. Which synth are you using?

	Both the speakup_ltlk, loaded from /etc/modules, and 
speakup_soft, loaded from /etc/rc.local with the commands:

rmmod speakup_ltlk
modprobe speakup_soft
espeakup
speakupconf load


> 2. Which version of the kernel are you using?  (uname -a)

Linux rivensight 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 14:28:12 UTC 2010 i686 
GNU/Linux

	It's the unaltered Debian Squeeze kernel that came from the 
amd64 installation disk, and I'm told, includes the speakup modules 
compiled into the kernel, and running on a I7-930 Quad-Core CPU on a 
SuperMicro X8STE motherboard with 24G's of Kingston memory.  I use the 
Orca screen reader for the GUI.  I'm surprized that it's a 686 kernel, 
but that's what Debian gave us for the 64-bit, Core-2 platforms, so I 
gather that it's the correct one.


> 3. Which version of the Speakup package are you using?> 

>From /var/log/dmesg Sorry for not word-wrapping):

[    6.214497] speakup: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    6.217153] speakup 3.1.3: initialized
[    6.217157] synth name on entry is: ltlk
[    6.217339] initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
[    6.217792] speakup_ltlk: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    6.218396] synth probe
[    6.218398] Ports not available, trying to steal them
[    6.220396] LiteTalk: ttyS0, Driver Version 2.10
[    6.255596] LiteTalk: ROM version: <FF>2.42A

	After the above, the loop module loads, and the line in 
/etc/modules is simply "speakup_ltlk", which appears to work just fine 
when I bother to turn on the LiteTalk.  Since I don't appear to have any 
problems booting up, I leave the thing switched off.  The synth is 
connected to ttyS0.  ttyS1 is unused (no plug), ttyS2 is a US Robotics 
PCI modem, and ttyS3 is on a Axxon searial/parallel PCIE card, as the 
mobo came without a friggin printer port.  Both cards are reported to 
work flawlessly with Linux.  Lemme know if you need the output from 
something like lshw or something for this...

				Michael