The specific messages you posted the other day are your best bet to get solid advice. Anything else is just wild guesswork which I doubt we'll even try to do. For instance, I don't think anyone would have guessed apic, and clearly it was getting in your way. I know it's a pain to have to pull that kind of data together for an email posting, but it's the only way. Corey Knapp writes: > Hi Dug, > I had my girlfriend go and disable apic but now the doubletalk will not > speak and I have tried the following things. > 1. text speakup_synth=ltlk speakup_ser=1 and I tried 0 and 2 > It boots fine from the fedora 3 boot.iso any help would be appreciated. > thanks in advance. > Corey > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:53 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: need help getting fedora 6 to boot with speech > > Your system is choking before it gets to anything to do with speech. The > APIC is a programmable interrupt controller. Thats the 8259A in your system. > The 8254 mentioned is the system timer. It appears that on boot the kernel > is trying to register the system timer with the interrupt controller and > it's failing. > > Note what the kernel message states: try booting with the 'noapic' option. > This is a kernel parameter. They can be specified at the boot prompt. > > Suggestion 1: > text speakup_synth=ltlk noapic > > Suggestion 2: > Get your girlfriend to boot into BIOS and disable ACPI in the BIOS, save and > exit, and boot again. > > I'm betting that your system uses nvidia nforce on the system chipset. You > are not alone with this APIC error. > > > Corey Knapp wrote: > > Hi > > My girl friend was here and here is what she saw on the screen > > > > Timer: vector=0x31 apic1=0 Pin1=0 apic2=-1 Pin2=-1 MP-BIOS bug: 8254 > > Timer not connected to Io-APIC Trying to set up timer (IRQ0) Through > > The 8259A.Failed Trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ.Failed > > Trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ. Failed :( . > > Kernel Panic- not syncing: IO- Apic + timer doesn't work! Boot with > > apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the 'noapic' option. > > Thanks in advance. > > Corey > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
