Hi Kirk, thanks for the guidelines. Now what have I found out: ROM version: it seems both Apollo and ROM are versions 2.01 (upon issuing @? it says "2.01" twice). One problem - Apollo port auto-detection: I have been quite vague in the last mails about the problems with Apollo port auto-detection. After some tests, I'd like to tell you more about it, beacause I think it might be important. I disconencted all the serial devices and I don't have internal modem. No matter to which port I connected Apollo (either ttyS0 or ttyS1) it was always found at ttyS2. (It worked (a bit) when I connected it to ttyS0 - but this is probably because of the shared interrupt). I have tweaked the driver to find it on the ttyS0 always for the time which solved first part of my problem - Apollo detection (for now - for me to be able to test it). The second problem - timeouts: You are absolutely right: I got the message "Apolo: Timed out." I tried to change the value of the constant to two million as you proposed but the result was the same - I only waited longer at the boot and I got about twice as many of these messages. The only way I managed to get it to say at least something was to return immediately (or after the first "if" - it's been the same) from the wait_for_xmitr function. But when it gets to the "holding register empty" cycle, it ends up with the time out and won't say a word. I hope you can figure out something from this terse description (for which I apologize) and if there is something more I could do, I'm ready to try it. Roman P.S.: my kernel is 2.2.16 and I didn't have any problems in applying the speakup (0.09) patches -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Roman Vanicek Free-b-software project mailto:vanicek at brailcom.cz http://freebsoft.freesoft.cz
