Once you delete that return statement, you have to recompile the kernel -- in 2.6.37 I would using the staging driver instead of git. This works for me , at any rate. Jacob Schmude <j.schmude at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > Well, it's been a while but here I am again to stir up a bit of > trouble. <grin> > I'm attempting to use Speakup with a serial synthesizer on Archlinux > with kernel 2.6.37.1-1 (2.6.37-ARCH is the in-kernel version number). > Speakup is included in these kernels, but trying to load any of the > speakup synthesizer drivers results in the following: > synth probe > Ports not available, trying to steal them > Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000000003f8-00000000000003ff> > Unable to allocate port at 3f8, errno -16 > LiteTalk: not found > ltlk: device probe failed > > This happens with any serial synth I have, though obviously substitute > the other driver names in these errors. I've tried the Doubletalk LT, > Dectalk Express, and Accent SA (yes, all of which I do have). I get > the same result whether I allow Speakup to probe or whether I specify > a ser=0 parameter. > I've trieed a few things. First, I tried unbinding the in-kernel > serial driver from that port via sysfs, but there's no change although > the port does seem to successfully unbind. Second, I searched the > speakup archives and found a post from January detailing this problem, > and the poster had success removing the return NULL statement at that > point in serialio.c. This didn't work for me, however, and I'm not all > that surprised it didn't. > I've tried the staging speakup in the kernel, and with the latest git. > The return NULL removal was attempted on the git source tree. > Can anyone shed a bit of light on what I'm probably doing wrong? I can > compile a custom kernel if necessary, though I was hoping not to need > this. It worked in kernel 2.6.36, but obviously something critical has > changed. > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
