But what is the real cause of this error -- do the serial drivers register the resource in some way which prevents unregistering -- or what else exactly is going on here? Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote: > John Heim, le Wed 07 Mar 2012 08:45:19 -0600, a ?crit : > > Here is a link to a patch file that I believe will fix the bug that > > causes modprobe to error out when you try to load a speakup module for a > > serial synth. > > Note: it's not a proper fix, as it won't prevent you from screwing your > serial port if you concurrently access it through /dev/ttyS0 while > speakup is running, but it's probably better than nothing. > > > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/downloads/patch-2012-03-06.patch > > Better use the -u option of patch, it provides safer patches. > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > 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
