On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, randy turner wrote: > it is bad that they say those serial card will work in linux > because that is really not the case in some situations. Well, they work in Linux, just not with Speakup. Speakup comes up before the standard serial driver gets loaded, and basically implements its own serial driver which probes the normal IRQ/IO addresses for built-in serial cards looking for a synthesizer. You're right in that the PCI cards never seem to come up on "normal" IRQ/address combinations. Still, they can be used for other serial devices, like Braille displays and UPS monitoring.
