Are people still having trouble with serial synths with latest Speakup? I haven't heard any further discussion on this since my last post. On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:14:55PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I also just tried to run my Speakout serial synth and got errors > similar to what others have been reporting. I will paste in the most > relevant line from the system log. > Trying to free nonexistent resource > <00000000000003f8-00000000000003ff> > Before that, tynth probe was followed by being unable to get the port > and "trying to steal them." I got the same results with talkwith and > manually trying to do echoing to speakup/synth. > > In any case, the pride and joy of Speakup with serial synths doesn't > work for me either. This happened with both the binary version on > ArchLinux and the git pull from just an hour ago (July 6th). > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:58:06AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:52:01PM -0400, Kitty Litter wrote: > > > In speakup/src/serialio.c comment out the return (NULL); line just below > > > __release_region. > > > Looking at the kernel source in kernel/resource.c it seems that if > > > __release_region fails you would get a kernel message. So speakup seems to > > > think it fails but the kernel doesn't. > > > Someone with more smarts than me maybe can figure this all out. > > > > Actually the failure was happening on the line below that in the call to > > synth_request_region. > > > > I don't have a fix for that yet, but now the code is set up to log the > > error code and port number if that fails so hopefully we can see what is > > going on. > > > > Are you comfortable with pulling from git and testing with that code? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > William > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
