You have to compile your own kernel with the workaround previously posted and you will get hardware speech. Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
