is anyone running a hardware speakup synthesizer on any of the modern kernel releases? I'm thinking one possibility may be hardware kernels have been disabled in these modern kernels as shipped from the developers. I hope not, but if that is the case and distributors like Slackware do not enable those hardware drivers that would explain why on the amd side 13.37 14.1 and slackware-current all fail to bring up the litetalk speakup module in a way that gets my litetalk synthesizer speaking for an install. It's possible this is not the case and if it's not the case, this system is experiencing some kind of error that will show up on the screen when one is plugged and a boot test is done with these failing slackware distros. After I've logged in on slackware I've done echo "Hello, World!" >/dev/ttyS0 and hear the text spoken. However when I type modprobe speakup_ltlk and hit enter, all the rest is silence. One way it might work is if /dev/ttyS0 is first initialized as a serial port and then the speakup parameters are passed in on the boot prompt. Why this should have to be done now when it wasn't necessary in the past is a puzzle to me if it does work. jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Twitter: @jdashiel _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
