If the accessibility drivers are loaded later than the serial drivers, how does speakup ever get a port at all since its already taken by the drivers? on Sunday 07/20/2008 William Hubbs(w.d.hubbs at gmail.com) wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > > as of this message, I made a change to the way speakup installs to > kernels 2.6.25 and lower which should fix the floating serial ports > issue when speakup and the serial driver are built into the kernel. > > The issue was that when both speakup and the 8250 serial driver were > built in, speakup would initialize first and reserve the serial port for > the synthesizer. Then, the 8250 driver would initialize and since > speakup would have one port already reserved, the 8250 driver would > renumber the ports with higher numbers to one lower than they would be > if speakup was not running. > > If you are using speakup installed into the kernel source and not > building as external modules and using a kernel before 2.6.26, you need > to start with a fresh kernel tree before doing the update. > > For 2.6.26, this should not be an issue, since the accessibility drivers > are loaded later than the serial driver. > > Thanks, > > William > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkiEEKQACgkQblQW9DDEZThYUwCfQJelIMinqoJClMGya4JRN/Vc > BkcAmQGlkTUfEF1kmSHSCjpVWaIctFxL > =aJy4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
