patch for serial synths

[John Heim]

I posted a really long message explaining the problem last week.


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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: patch for serial synths


> But what is the real cause of this error -- do the serial drivers
> register the resource in some way which prevents unregistering -- or
> what else exactly is going on here?
>
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
>> John Heim, le Wed 07 Mar 2012 08:45:19 -0600, a écrit :
>> >    Here is a link to a patch file that I believe will fix the bug that
>> > causes modprobe to error out when you try to load a speakup module for 
>> > a
>> > serial synth.
>>
>> Note: it's not a proper fix, as it won't prevent you from screwing your
>> serial port if you concurrently access it through /dev/ttyS0 while
>> speakup is running, but it's probably better than nothing.
>>
>> > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/downloads/patch-2012-03-06.patch
>>
>> Better use the -u option of patch, it provides safer patches.
>>
>> Samuel
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