Still no serial speech with 32-bit Wheezy

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

You have to compile your own kernel with the workaround previously
posted and you will get hardware speech.

Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> As I posted here a while ago, I was going to do a new, fresh install of
> Debian Wheezy to see if I could get working serial speech with a 32-bit
> kernel.  I normally run 64-bit kernels exclusively here, but I had an
> extra partition serving no useful purpose and I wanted to try a fresh
> install with Orca to see how well everything worked.  I'm happy to say
> that the install went smoothly and both Speakup and Orca came up on boot.
>  For the first time, I had a talking gdm3 login and everything just worked
> as it should.  Software speech also came up fine.
> 
> What I previously posted was that if I attempted to load a hardware
> Speakup module, the system completely locked up.  That is no longer the
> case, but I still don't get hardware speech.  After switching to a text
> console and logging in as root, I did the following, all on one line:
> 
> pkill espeakup;rmmod speakup_soft;rmmod speakup
> 
> That left me with no speech.  Just to make sure, I then ran the following:
> 
> pkill espeak
> 
> Then, I ran the following:
> 
> modprobe speakup_dectlk
> 
> I got no speech, but the system didn't lock up.  I confirmed this by
> launching espeak by itself and entering text which was spoken as normal.
> I repeated the rmmod commands to remove any Speakup modules and again
> loaded speakup_dectlk but redirecting to /dev/ttyS0 so I could hear any
> error messages.  I got silence.  I then typed "halt" and the system halted
> as expected.  Therefore, at least on my system, I still have no hardware
> speech, even with a 32-bit install.  Wheezy uses the 3.2 kernel, so maybe
> a fix made it into a later kernel version.  I could try upgrading to a
> newer kernel, but I would like to keep the system as close to stable as
> possible for now since I have a talking desktop environment.
> 
> It's still a complete mystery to me how anyone here seems to have working
> serial support in 3.X kernels.  Apparently a 32-bit install doesn't seem
> to make any difference.  I'm glad to try any reasonable experiments since
> it's on an extra partition anyway.
> 
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