Serial conflict

[Steve Holmes]

Hi Jacob,

I too use Arch Linux but also experience the same problem you do.
Though I didn't get into messing with kernel details, I tried the
solution that Chuck suggested in his previous message, but no joy for
me either.  My failure to get serials to work goes back to something
like 2.6.34.  've been trying this with a Speakout, using the
speakup_spkout driver. I thought someone told me that driver had a bug
of some kind but I really would like to be able to use an external
synthesizer, especially if software speech goes south when playing
with pulse audio or other such evil things.

I really wish we could get to the bottom of this serial problem since
that used to be speakup's life blood.  I think many of us are hoping
the recent kernel integration might lead us to support in getting the
serial support beefed up so you could even use USB or PCI serial ports
and not be locked into the old ones which hardly exist anymore on most
new computers.

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:38:21AM -0800, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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> Hi Chuck
> I wish it did, but I can't load any of the hardware synth modules.
> When I try, I get the serial conflict where by Speakup tries to steal
> the ports from the kernel and can't. I know how to configure Speakup
> and things like that, but I need to figure out what is going wrong
> with the serial driver before it will work. I'm horrible at kernel
> hacking, so I've only gotten it to half work where by the kernel and
> speakup battle for control of the port constantly. Speakup does talk
> when I have it do this, but responsiveness is awful. Using either an
> unchanged staging or clean git, however, just does not work. It is
> rather irritating, since it did work in 2.6.36 and, examining the
> configs for both kernels, I can't see anything that even remotely
> looks related to this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On 03/02/2011 03:01 AM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Jacob,
> >
> > My distro is identical to yours, also on a 64 bit machine, and here is
> > how I configure speakup for both a software synthesizer and a serial
> > synthesizer:
> >
> > 1. In /etc/rc.conf, my MODULES line looks like this:
> >
> > MODULES=(ipv6 speakup speakup_soft speakup_ltlk)
> >
> > 2. In /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf, add these lines:
> >
> > options speakup_soft start=0
> > options speakup_ltlk ser=0 start=0
> >
> > 3. In /etc/rc.local, add these lines:
> >
> > # start talking
> > talkwith soft espeakup
> > speakupconf load
> >
> > In the last group, the talkwith command could specify either device,
> > and once the syhstem is running, the talkwith command switches between
> > devices gracefully, I use sudo to run it as root.
> >
> > Hope that elps.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> >
> >
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