need help getting fedora 6 to boot with speech

Corey Knapp coreytk at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 22:58:00 EST 2007


Hi Dug,
Here is the error that I am now receiving when trying to boot fedora 6
thanks in advance.
CPU:		0
EIP:		0060:[<ffffffff>] Tainted:GS VLI
EFLAGS:	00010292 (2.6.18-1.289.fc6pk#1)
EIP is at 0xffffffff
eax: 00000000	 ebx:ffffffff ecx:ffffffff edx:00000046
esi: ffffffff 	 edi:ffffffff  ebp:ffffffff esp:dfa14f84
ds: 007b	es: 007b  ss:0068
Process swapper (pid:1,ti=dfa14000task-dfa215f0task.ti=dfa14000)
Stack:	ffffffff ffffffff c000ffff  c0541afa  c06498d2  c076703f  00000000
c04004bd
C062a5d3  00000570  00000000  c0749fcc  c0403f06  00000202  c04002fc
00000000
00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000 c04002fc  00000000
00000000
Call Trace:
Inexact backtrace:
[<c0547afa>] speakup_dev_init+0x13/0x7e
[<c076703f>]hpet_init+0x2f/0x55
[<c04004bd>]init+0x1c1/0x36a
[<c0403f06>]ret_from_fork+0x6/0x20
[<c04002fc>]init+0x0/0x36a>]
[<c04002fc>]init+0x0/0x36a>]
[<c0405447>]Kernel_Thread_helper+0x7/0x10

 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 7:47 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: need help getting fedora 6 to boot with speech

Corey,

Okay, if disabling apic stops doubletalk, then did you try the other
suggestion instead of getting someone to disable ACPI in BIOS settings?

One of the things that ACPI does is dynamic assignment of interrupts (IRQs).
Those kernel messages showed failures while trying to do that dynamic IRQ
assignment.
Disabling ACPI will tell the kernel to assign interrupts the old fashioned
way, like before ACPI was available.

If that doesn't work then are there any other specific error messages? Does
the system proceed to install and just not speak, or what exactly is
happening?

  -- Doug


Corey Knapp wrote:
> Hi Dug,
> I had my girlfriend go and disable apic but now the doubletalk will 
> not speak and I have tried the following things.
> 1. text speakup_synth=ltlk speakup_ser=1 and I tried 0 and 2 It boots 
> fine from the fedora 3 boot.iso any help would be appreciated.
> thanks in advance.
> Corey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:53 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: need help getting fedora 6 to boot with speech
>
> Your system is choking before it gets to anything to do with speech. 
> The APIC is a programmable interrupt controller. Thats the 8259A in your
system.
> The 8254 mentioned is the system timer. It appears that on boot the 
> kernel is trying to register the system timer with the interrupt 
> controller and it's failing.
>
> Note what the kernel message states: try booting with the 'noapic' option.
> This is a kernel  parameter.  They can be specified at the boot prompt.
>
> Suggestion 1:
> text speakup_synth=ltlk noapic
>
> Suggestion 2:
> Get your girlfriend to boot into BIOS and disable ACPI in the BIOS, 
> save and exit, and boot again.
>
> I'm betting that your system uses nvidia nforce on the system chipset. 
> You are not alone with this APIC error.
>
>
> Corey Knapp wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>> My girl friend was here and here is what she saw on the screen
>>
>> Timer: vector=0x31 apic1=0 Pin1=0 apic2=-1 Pin2=-1 MP-BIOS bug: 8254 
>> Timer not connected to Io-APIC Trying to set up timer (IRQ0) Through 
>> The 8259A.Failed Trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ.Failed 
>> Trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ. Failed :( .
>> Kernel Panic- not syncing: IO- Apic + timer doesn't work!  Boot with 
>> apic=debug and send a report.  Then try booting with the 'noapic' option.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Corey


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