Does said patch also help with PCI serial ports, or is it only a fix for the 64-bit issue? And where would one find this patch? Or are you simplying saying to patch the kernel with the latest Speakup release? Keith -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of covici at ccs.covici.com Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:28 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Serial ports with 32-bit vs. 64-bit processors You can get hardware speech if you are willing to compile your kernel and do a patch which is a temporary workaround for the problem. Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote: > Ah, that's what I've been wondering about. I've asked various people here > who claim to have working hardware speech, but never got a response. My > question is if they're running 32-bit or not. I can not only confirm that > it won't work on 64-bit systems but if I try to unload speakup_soft and > load speakup_ltlk, it completely locks up the system. Someone else said > they didn't have any problem with serial speech with new kernels and a > 32-bit processor, but I couldn't get it confirmed. Now, my question is > what difference would a 64-bit processor make? Why does it completely > lock up here but seems to work for at least three people on older 32-bit > processors? I'm tempted to install 32-bit Debian Wheezy just to see if it > makes any difference. I can say that it doesn't seem to matter on a > 32-bit live CD here. > > On 5/15/2013 3:45 PM, Adam Myrow wrote: > > Ok, I am using the kernel that ships with Debian 7.0, which is listed > > as 3.2.0-4-686-pae. My Dectalk USB works just as it always has in > > RS232 mode. In other words, serial support isn't broken for me. This > > is the 32-bit version, so maybe that's the difference. > > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Have a good day, > Tony Baechler > tony at baechler.net > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/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 linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
