Debian upgrade to Jessie

[Tom Fowle]

Tony,
Thanks, I'll keep all that in mind.

As I think I understand, the newer kernels have a problem with serial ports,
not internal hardware synths.  I'm not enthusiastic about upgrading without
doing the entire thing, beyond my capabilities.
Thanks
tom

On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 02:37:19AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Replies inline below.
> 
> On 7/31/2015 8:55 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
> >Has anybody yet got round to upgrading Debian from Wheezie to Jessie while
> >using speakup and a hardware synth E.G. doubletalk PC?
> 
> Yes, I have upgraded my desktop machine.  Actually I was still
> running a Lenny, Squeeze and Wheezy hybrid, meaning I had packages
> from all three releases.  They are now all updated to Jessie or
> testing.
> 
> >
> >If so were there any problems? Does jessie come up talking after the
> >upgrade?
> 
> 
> No, everything works fine.  I should say here that I'm still using
> kernel 2.6.32 though.  I purposely didn't upgrade my kernel because
> I didn't want to lose hardware speech.  If you keep an old kernel,
> put a hold on the udev package and don't switch to systemd.
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