Why I can't recommend Arch or Gentoo

[Tony Baechler]

No, you're wrong.  Debian, Ubuntu, etc don't have this problem.  The problem 
seems to be entirely in the brltty package as shipped with Talking Arch. 
I'm guessing, but based on the brltty.conf shipped with Debian, the default 
is to probe the serial port for a Braille display.  Whatever it sends to the 
serial port causes the DECtalk Express to emit random characters and 
completely stop speaking until it is turned off and on.  The sound card 
problem is an unrelated issue, also related to Arch, but probably upstream, 
not Talking Arch specifically.

On 9/26/2015 6:59 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> ArchLinux wasn't responsible for preventing your dectalk express from
> talking.  That was the folks that do Linux kernel development since the
> serial interface got broken by someone trying to fix something they didn't
> know about in terms of the source code and the use of that source code.  I
> don't know if you tried ArchLinux directed at a sound card or not.  The
> braille tty probably used serial ports so the Linux kernel developers took
> that down too with that single incorrect patch.