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

Tue Sep 21 18:26:47 EDT 2010

Hi Kirk,

      I'm noticing the garbled speech, usually manifested as dropped 
characters, on a dual core system.

           HTH.

-- 
           Bill in Denver

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> There seems to be a bug in speakup running on quad core processors
> which produces garbled speech output occasionally.  I have not been
> able to nailed down an exact situation which will consistantly produce
> the effect but it happens regularly.  There must be some lock which is
> not set and therefore the text gets into the output buffer in a
> disordered fashion.  Reviewing the screen will of course read it
> correctly.
>
>  Kirk
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Gaijin wrote:
>
>> 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
>> 
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>
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