ide-scsi and speakup possible conflict

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Thu Dec 26 00:04:37 EST 2002


I'm using ide-scsi with a doubletalk pc with no problems.

Have a look at /var/log/messages to see what happened previously.

Greg


On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:52:55PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I'm aweflly glad I tried this out on boot up line with lilo first.  What I
> entered was linux speakup_synth=ltlk hdd=ide-scsi.  What I heard on boot
> up was litetalk being found at customary address and the root @bigkitty
> gcc message and speakup initialized ide scsi setup then silence.  Only way
> I got control and speech back was to power down and reboot.  I'm thinking
> one of two possible conflicts is happening and perhaps both.  First an irq
> conflict between litetalk synthesizer and cdrw drive.  Second, some kind
> of fight between ide-scsi.o driver and speakup.  since the login was not
> successful, the computer never made it to the login prompt I have a sound
> that plays when initial login is requested since I put the command in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local which is not overwritten in slackware and the sound
> didn't play on that failed login but did on this one when I didn't include
> the hdd=ide-scsi statement on the boot line.  Would slackware have left
> any records of the failed login around?  I know I can read the current
> login with dmessg | less.  Only reason I'm doing any of this is hdd is a
> cdrw drive that's supposed to be able to work with linux and cdrecord
> -scanbus can't find the scsi driver that will talk to my hardware.
> 
> -- 
> Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>
> 
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