Speakup and serial adapter cards

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

I have Supermicro boards in my systems, and they both have serial ports,
actually they have two headers.  You do need a cable and it takes up an
I/O slot in the back, but so what.

Trevor Astrope <astrope at tabbweb.com> wrote:

> I bought an Asus board last June that had the header, but I had to get
> a custom cable built, as it was too far away for the standard cable.
> 
> I also have a pcie card that won't work with speakup. It boots with
> the same irq and i/o address each time, which is not irq3 or 4. I
> tried changing the irq and i/o address in the speakup code, but
> speakup still won't work.
> 
> I'm just curious, do the active developers use software speech? If so,
> this might explain why this issue isn't getting much attention.
> 
> Trevor
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Michael Whapples wrote:
> 
> > Yes I agree this really is an issue. For some odd reason the Asus
> > system board I have recently bought seems to have the serial port
> > controller built in (Windows shows a serial port device in device
> > manager for COM1) but Asus didn't feel the need to either provide
> > the actual port or the pin header so I could connect a port to the
> > header should I need it.
> >
> > OK there are a few boards still built with serial ports, but this
> > limits the choice and so if you want certain features you may just
> > have to choose a system with no serial port. So having support for a
> > serial adapter (either USB or PCI/PCIE) would be very useful.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > -----Original Message----- From: D. Curtis Willoughby
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:26 AM
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards
> >
> > This is getting to be a big problem!
> >
> > I have a new computer without a serial port.  To use a hardware
> > synthasizer like a Doubletalk LT I must use a USB to serial
> > adapter or a PCI-E card.  This computer does not have PCI slot(s).
> > If this combination of "cannot do" restrictions is not fixed,
> > serial hardware synthesizers are doomed to become obsolete.
> >
> > I guess there are a few USB synthesizers, and software speach is
> > still well not wonderful.  I have not been able to establish
> > whether the few PCI-E cards can manage IRQs and I/O addresses
> > so they are treated like internal serial ports, but I suspect
> > they cannot.  Is it not possible to modify speakup so that it
> > can use any serial port on the machine, rather than just ttyS0
> > and ttyS1?  Would you developers please look at a solution for
> > this one?  Please!
> >
> > D. Curtis Willoughby
> >
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> >> Nope, Speakup in now way supports pci serial cards.
> >>
> >> >Hello,
> >> >I know that speakup cannot work with synths connected through a
> >> USB to >serial
> >> adapter, however I would like to confirm whether speakup can use
> >> serial ports p
> >> rovided by a PCI-express or PCI serial adapter card? I am most
> >> interested in th
> >> e PCI-Express adapter cards.
> >> >
> >> >Michael Whapples
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