You don't need the patch/klooge to get software speech working. If you
are in communication with the slackware developers, you might consider
suggesting they do what debian chose to do which is to enable software
speech.
I doubt that my patch/klooge has anything to do with the problem
unloading the speakup modules other than that it's impossible to load
some of them in the first place without my patch. I am not 100% certain
of this but what I think is going on with the kernel developers is that
they don't want you to write directly to the serial port. So they put a
function call in to check if the port is available -- but it's never
available because they don't want you to write to it. All my patch does
is to remove the error return code after the test fails.
I sure wish I was rich enough to retire. I'd work on this stuff full time.
On 04/16/2015 02:51 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
slackware isn't talking yet. That may change though since Patrick
Volkerding found out all the hardware synthesizers that were able to
have slackware talking have been disabled by a block the linux kernel
folks put in the kernels. Patrick is considering putting the whole
espeakup dependency stack on slackware install disks as a result of the
breakage. Patrick tried the patch supplied by John Heim here on speakup
and found that it works but if espeakup module is ever removed it
results in a kernel panic and a system crash.
Gentoo does talk, but to the best of my knowledge nobody has done a
podcast episode explaining how to use the speakup facilities to gentoo
installed in such a way that gentoo comes up talking on first reboot
after system installation is complete. If I can get that podcast
episode, I'll be installing gentoo here on at least one large hard disk
I have.
-- Twitter: JudeDaShiell
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Techswing33 wrote:
Hello,
Adding to this I'm using arch Linux in a VMware virtual environment,
workstation11, and talking arch does not work in this setup. I'm
suspecting it has something to do with the hdaudio driver emulating a
7.1 surround as opposed to the older es1371, but I have not found a
fix.
Unrelated, but if either Gentoo or slackware are talking I'd like to
know about them.
Thanks.
Dave.
On 4/15/15, Joseph C. Lininger <devnull-speakup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks guys. As a corelary, if any assistance is needed in maintaining
this installation media or anything, I would be happy to help. My
experience is mostly with Gentoo, Slackware, and currently picking up
Arch Linux.
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