I posted a really long message explaining the problem last week. ----- Original Message ----- From: <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 11:36 AM Subject: Re: patch for serial synths > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >