speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy

[Chris Brannon]

Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> writes:

> Hi all,
> I upgraded one of my machines yesterday to wheezy. This is a virtual
> machine running in virtualbox, and uses software speech. The box was
> upgraded to the 686-pae kernel that comes with wheezy. The main
> speakup module seems to be crashing as soon as it starts.

Hi Greg,
Is speakup being loaded with the "quiet" module parameter?  If so,
try loading the module without it.
If the crash goes away when the parameter is removed, then you're
dealing with a known bug that was fixed over a year ago, and the patch
just hasn't made it into your kernel yet.

-- Chris