Hi: You will need to run a kernel without speakup, or a kernel with the current CVS version of speakup and no synth selected. I don't quite know what killing speakup does and does not do, but it's obviously not releasing the serial port that your speech synth is on. The reason why speakup hogs the serial port at all is mainly because it's apparently linux kernel policy that it be done this way. I'm sure we'd all like to see speakup eventually become part of the standard linux kernel and if this is to happen, the port must be handled this way to comply with linux standards. Note that I'm assuming you're trying to use emacspeak with the same synth that you're using speakup with. If this is not the case then completely disregard this message. I've not used emacspeak so can't advise on its use. Geoff.
