hi luke this computer has one modem, and no serial ports, i put a startech serial port in my synth that i am using on this computer is a litetalk i wonder if the builtin modem is causing problems for the startech serial card? randy turner On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Luke Yelavich wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:44:55PM EST, Willem van der Walt wrote: >> Would creating a device with the major and minor numbers of ttyS4, but >> with the name ttyS3 not solve the problem? > > No, unfortunately not. Speakup talks to the UARTs on serial ports > directly, bypassing the kernel serial and tty subsystem. > > And it is this fact that I fear may be a problem with the PCI card. I > don't think it will work with speakup at all. > > If you have other serial ports, what I'd do is move one device off one > of those onto the PCI serial card, and put the synth on one of the > serial ports on the main motherboard. I say this because a PCI serial > card is very likely not to have been assigned standard I/O and IRQ > settings of a normal serial port. > > hth > - -- > Luke Yelavich > GPG key: 0xD06320CE > (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) > Email & MSN: themuso at themuso.com > Jabber: themuso at jabber.org.au > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFWF5YjVefwtBjIM4RAuGQAJ4y652Gqj1Lvt0bMuvH8X2Ug4D/XwCgz5Mw > mKsF++EjvVsG8om0LTz3s68= > =tmYY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
