Tony, Thanks, I'll keep all that in mind. As I think I understand, the newer kernels have a problem with serial ports, not internal hardware synths. I'm not enthusiastic about upgrading without doing the entire thing, beyond my capabilities. Thanks tom On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 02:37:19AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > Replies inline below. > > On 7/31/2015 8:55 PM, Tom Fowle wrote: > >Has anybody yet got round to upgrading Debian from Wheezie to Jessie while > >using speakup and a hardware synth E.G. doubletalk PC? > > Yes, I have upgraded my desktop machine. Actually I was still > running a Lenny, Squeeze and Wheezy hybrid, meaning I had packages > from all three releases. They are now all updated to Jessie or > testing. > > > > >If so were there any problems? Does jessie come up talking after the > >upgrade? > > > No, everything works fine. I should say here that I'm still using > kernel 2.6.32 though. I purposely didn't upgrade my kernel because > I didn't want to lose hardware speech. If you keep an old kernel, > put a hold on the udev package and don't switch to systemd. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
