-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, As I posted here a while ago, I was going to do a new, fresh install of Debian Wheezy to see if I could get working serial speech with a 32-bit kernel. I normally run 64-bit kernels exclusively here, but I had an extra partition serving no useful purpose and I wanted to try a fresh install with Orca to see how well everything worked. I'm happy to say that the install went smoothly and both Speakup and Orca came up on boot. For the first time, I had a talking gdm3 login and everything just worked as it should. Software speech also came up fine. What I previously posted was that if I attempted to load a hardware Speakup module, the system completely locked up. That is no longer the case, but I still don't get hardware speech. After switching to a text console and logging in as root, I did the following, all on one line: pkill espeakup;rmmod speakup_soft;rmmod speakup That left me with no speech. Just to make sure, I then ran the following: pkill espeak Then, I ran the following: modprobe speakup_dectlk I got no speech, but the system didn't lock up. I confirmed this by launching espeak by itself and entering text which was spoken as normal. I repeated the rmmod commands to remove any Speakup modules and again loaded speakup_dectlk but redirecting to /dev/ttyS0 so I could hear any error messages. I got silence. I then typed "halt" and the system halted as expected. Therefore, at least on my system, I still have no hardware speech, even with a 32-bit install. Wheezy uses the 3.2 kernel, so maybe a fix made it into a later kernel version. I could try upgrading to a newer kernel, but I would like to keep the system as close to stable as possible for now since I have a talking desktop environment. It's still a complete mystery to me how anyone here seems to have working serial support in 3.X kernels. Apparently a 32-bit install doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm glad to try any reasonable experiments since it's on an extra partition anyway. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRpAX6AAoJEPrAuJWnLe0yxOgP/i8vpWpoXSPRYhqj2cLjeN50 q4LiPRKyeNhvdVxVzI1q8ltToc9zWqt+wC/sxvIy8IGVeklG7v4w5hwAQvxIwtct q/BVnFhh1M00uipCCcevzfPljX2PKR4NgsJlkbRsUFjsnHbB/qI0FPxPqxYqR4dq VptXOqr/KN7wVbXDrsgwlHzkhbPkl14HKVdF5yiMCIVA3fBOufAFUGaA8tIYsEvb kGJU54/PQ61p9h+lhO8wRCxBJFSSp+OEWcG1zhwXeCyryBh2KEJjrDcU01ad2PvR cy4/gBuzY0P33t7hC12OYebeTkS3tn4o3fQEFMBwpA8j7DFlPJsh4dYbaSP37nd6 ZYLdv+ya4Wg76gKu8JJ+iY3uFdvW9NTpOahlSCnxyglf5ZPRFeLJwIg55jwlrN+M HpwrGbJpu8eNCUyAw1K5q2pjpoTaSd4MK7WndoN5tqjJ9k4FdnNBhkoQ1IghEL/i dMvJkeYnDSRjqYywfiCnkIZzc43qexswbFTlZo2ctin9KlsLuIys+8VSUd26mooh RpeM1PyfUWvgiKwggsrKG3RpTmIe/oetz7oG4cIX/w7qiJvm+BR/Kz1X1YnrxN05 15YrBnw47X0b2L+UDbmMzr7zufaEAl50awZ5zMm+JsO5XsdItl1UeixBR7vhPi15 MNG9Gs7JF4aez0QKotZg =ThVT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
