I am pretty sure the system was dead as I have brltty starting during the boot sequence and it never started. The modem issue is more complicated as I was trying to use ttyS0 and kermit worked but bbbs did not, but maybe its related. on Sunday 06/29/2008 William Hubbs(w.d.hubbs at gmail.com) wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 06:52:59PM -0400, John covici wrote: > > OK, so I tried the latest speakup git with kernel 2.6.25 gentoo > > sources and the following happened: > > > > I had speakout module built in and soft and dectalk express as > > modules. Now the first time I booted, I let it talk without pressing > > any keys and it eventually hung somewhere, i.e. lost speech and the > > system was dead or crashed. > > Are you sure it was dead or crashed, or did you just lose speech? The > reason I ask is you might have come across the issue that happens when > we time out too many times waiting for the synth to tell us it can > receive more data -- after it times out so many times we assume that > someone has turned off the synth and put it in an unavailable status. > > > Then I rebooted and for quite a while -- > > unlike my present kernel which is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 and a speakup git > > of about 2 month ago -- I could get no keyboard access for some time, > > although it did eventually appear. Then the system came up normally, > > except that I had an app which could not initialize a modem > > successfully for some reason, so I went back to the former kernel and > > speakup. The app is called bbbs which I use to control modem events. > > I suppose I could use cron, but this is much more convenient. > > The modem issue sounds like it might be the "floating serial ports" issue > reported in Bugs.txt. > > William > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkhoF6YACgkQblQW9DDEZTibaACgjj1u+NOwQfalKBgZLWPJY9t9 > HR8AmgK6NL6TEW/Yb8msqv5oK9/4PS8a > =qqfx > -----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
