I reported this problem 3 or 4 weeks ago. Gregory Nowak was able to confirm that it was happening. I was not able to get speakup running after the fact as you describe, although I can't say for certain that I tried that exact method. Greg did not report getting it to work after the fact either. I solved it by simply having speakup main compile as builtin, instead of as a module. While this is untested in regards to modprobe, it would be better to use: kill -9 $! Than it is to use: killall modprobe because if any concurrent modprobes happened to be running at that time, you could get yourself into some trouble. Regards, Luke On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Hynek Hanke wrote: > > Hello, > > we are experiencing a problem with the speakupmain module (the latest > CVS versions with 2.6.18 kernel) on at least one machine here in > Brailcom. I can't say much about it except for this: > > 1) Our target configuration is Speakup with the sftsyn module. We tried > to load the modules separately and we are sure the hang happens because > of the speakupmain module. > > 2) The modprobe hangs every time we try to do > modprobe speakupmain > and when it hangs, the /dev/sftsyn device is still not intialized. > > 3) After we killall modprobe, the /dev/sftsyn device appears and there > comes a notice about it in syslog. The module stays loaded. It is then > possible to load speakup_sftsyn and Speakup works just fine. I'm not > sure if something is not missing in /proc/speakup or somewhere, but we > didn't notice anything strange. > > 4) Trying to increase modprobe verbosity or kernel logging level reveals > no additional information. gdb shows that the hang happens inside the > module_init() function in modprobe. > > Our workaround is (which also illustrates the issue): > modprobe speakupmain & > sleep 1 > killall modprobe > sleep 1 > modprobe speakup_sftsyn > > We would appreciate some help with this or some guidance about how could > we get more information about it. Also, does someone else experience > this issue? > > Thanks a lot, > Hynek Hanke
