Problems loading speakup

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
I have mentioned this before (cannot quite remember when it started, but 
it has certainly been an issue for all the 3.0 kernels, it also was 
before), but I have problems in loading the speakup modules.

When I try and load the speakup modules I get a load of error messages 
output to the kernel.log file (see later on in the message) with killed 
written to screen by modprobe and any later attempts to to load the 
module result in modprobe hanging.

Here is the output in /var/log/kernel.log I get from trying to load the 
speakup modules (in my case speakup_apollo, but I think the issue is in 
speakup as I get the same issue with the softsynth module). Does anyone 
have any ideas of what is wrong and how I can get speakup working again? 
I am using ArchLinux.

Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.088858] speakup: module is from 
the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096454] BUG: unable to handle 
kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000035
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096505] IP: [<f81910bb>] 
speakup_init+0xbb/0x28a [speakup]
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096543] *pde = 00000000
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096559] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT 
SMP
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096581] Modules linked in: 
speakup(C+) appletalk ipx p8022 psnap llc p8023 ipv6 cuse fuse nilfs2 
usblp snd_ice1712 snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx snd_intel8x0 snd_ak4xxx_adda 
snd_cs8427 snd_i2c b44 ssb snd_mpu401_uart snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus 
snd_pcm snd_rawmidi mmc_core snd_seq_device snd_timer pcmcia snd sg 
ppdev uhci_hcd pcmcia_core mii snd_page_alloc soundcore firewire_ohci 
parport_pc floppy ns558 evdev firewire_core crc_itu_t ehci_hcd iTCO_wdt 
parport usbcore pcspkr gameport intel_agp shpchp i2c_i801 
iTCO_vendor_support pci_hotplug intel_gtt processor ext4 mbcache jbd2 
crc16 sr_mod cdrom sd_mod pata_acpi ata_piix libata scsi_mod nouveau ttm 
drm_kms_helper drm agpgart i2c_algo_bit i2c_core mxm_wmi wmi video button
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] Pid: 2466, comm: 
modprobe Tainted: G         C  3.0-ARCH #1 System Manufacturer System 
Name/P4PE
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] EIP: 0060:[<f81910bb>] 
EFLAGS: 00210202 CPU: 0
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] EIP is at 
speakup_init+0xbb/0x28a [speakup]
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 
f4fc9200 ECX: f818d49b EDX: 00000000
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] ESI: 00000008 EDI: 
f818cea0 EBP: efce1ef0 ESP: efce1ed4
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 
00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] Process modprobe (pid: 
2466, ti=efce0000 task=f0e8b0d0 task.ti=efce0000)
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] Stack:
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  efce1ef0 c016a655 
f818a4c0 00000001 00000000 f818a4c0 00000001 efce1f20
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  c0101125 fffffffa 
00000000 00000000 f818a4c0 f818a4c0 f8191000 00000000
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  f818a4c0 f818a4c0 
00000001 efce1fac c0180332 f818a508 c057e14c 00000000
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] Call Trace:
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  [<c016a655>] ? 
notifier_call_chain+0x45/0x60
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  [<c0101125>] 
do_one_initcall+0x35/0x170
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  [<f8191000>] ? 0xf8190fff
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  [<c0180332>] 
sys_init_module+0xd92/0x19c0
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652]  [<c0454bdf>] 
sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] Code: 18 f8 00 75 e4 ba 
a0 d2 18 f8 b8 80 6b 18 f8 e8 6c 07 ff ff 83 3d 4c df 18 f8 00 74 12 0f 
b7 83 8c 00 00 00 8b 04 85 80 cb 18 f8
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] EIP: [<f81910bb>] 
speakup_init+0xbb/0x28a [speakup] SS:ESP 0068:efce1ed4
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.096652] CR2: 0000000000000035
Sep 30 10:06:45 localhost kernel: [  342.106050] ---[ end trace 
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