Help with serial synths in 4.X kernels

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Your output indicates you don't have the return null commented out, this
is why you are not getting speech.

Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:

> On 2/23/2016 6:31 AM, John G Heim wrote:
> > You should check the syslog. There are almost certainly messages in there
> > reporting what is happening. I'll try to compile 4.3 kernels for ubuntu and
> > debian over the next few days. I had planned to automate the process. Every
> > time my ubuntu machines download a new kernel, generate a new patched kernel
> > package. I never got around to it though. I was using a sed command to
> > comment out the line that caused serial synths to not work so that
> > automation was possible. Part of the problem here is that I have kind of
> > given up on serial synths myself. I have been depending more and more on the
> > combination of a braille display and software speech.  It seems to me that
> > using a hardware speech synth is going against the grain these days.
> 
> 
> As Karen and others have pointed out, we all have our own personal
> speech preferences. In my case, I have multiple reasons for wanting
> serial speech to work. I find it easier to hear and understand for one
> thing. There are some bugs in the DECtalk Express module which might
> be easily fixed, but the last unpatched kernel I know of that actually
> worked was 2.6.32 which is no longer supported. Anyway, as requested,
> here is the dmesg output. I don't see anything helpful. I did the
> following:
> 
> service espeakup stop
> rmmod speakup_soft
> modprobe speakup_dectlk
> rmmod speakup_dectlk
> rmmod speakup
> modprobe speakup_soft
> espeakup
> 
> [   11.336314] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link up
> [   11.336325] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> [   27.013903] releasing synth soft
> [   27.013975] unregistered /dev/softsynth
> [   32.824006] speakup: unregistering synth device /dev/synth
> [   56.630004] speakup: module is from the staging directory, the
> quality is unknown, you have been warned.
> [   56.630896] input: Speakup as /devices/virtual/input/input7
> [   56.631031] initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
> [   56.631055] speakup 3.1.6: initialized
> [   56.631057] synth name on entry is: dectlk
> [   56.639855] speakup_dectlk: module is from the staging directory,
> the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
> [   56.640036] synth probe
> [   56.640039] Ports not available, trying to steal them
> [   56.640042] Unable to allocate port at 3f8, errno -16
> [   56.640044] Dectalk Express: not found
> [   56.640045] dectlk: device probe failed
> [   67.012005] speakup: unregistering synth device /dev/synth
> [   70.985966] speakup: module is from the staging directory, the
> quality is unknown, you have been warned.
> [   70.986851] input: Speakup as /devices/virtual/input/input8
> [   70.986983] initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
> [   70.987006] speakup 3.1.6: initialized
> [   70.987008] synth name on entry is: dectlk
> [   70.987055] speakup_soft: module is from the staging directory, the
> quality is unknown, you have been warned.
> [   70.987193] synth probe
> [   70.987230] initialized device: /dev/softsynth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 26)
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