On 2/23/2016 6:31 AM, John G Heim wrote:
You should check the syslog. There are almost certainly messages in there
reporting what is happening. I'll try to compile 4.3 kernels for ubuntu and
debian over the next few days. I had planned to automate the process. Every
time my ubuntu machines download a new kernel, generate a new patched kernel
package. I never got around to it though. I was using a sed command to
comment out the line that caused serial synths to not work so that
automation was possible. Part of the problem here is that I have kind of
given up on serial synths myself. I have been depending more and more on the
combination of a braille display and software speech. It seems to me that
using a hardware speech synth is going against the grain these days.
As Karen and others have pointed out, we all have our own personal speech
preferences. In my case, I have multiple reasons for wanting serial speech
to work. I find it easier to hear and understand for one thing. There are
some bugs in the DECtalk Express module which might be easily fixed, but the
last unpatched kernel I know of that actually worked was 2.6.32 which is no
longer supported. Anyway, as requested, here is the dmesg output. I don't
see anything helpful. I did the following:
service espeakup stop
rmmod speakup_soft
modprobe speakup_dectlk
rmmod speakup_dectlk
rmmod speakup
modprobe speakup_soft
espeakup
[ 11.336314] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link up
[ 11.336325] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 27.013903] releasing synth soft
[ 27.013975] unregistered /dev/softsynth
[ 32.824006] speakup: unregistering synth device /dev/synth
[ 56.630004] speakup: module is from the staging directory, the quality is
unknown, you have been warned.
[ 56.630896] input: Speakup as /devices/virtual/input/input7
[ 56.631031] initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
[ 56.631055] speakup 3.1.6: initialized
[ 56.631057] synth name on entry is: dectlk
[ 56.639855] speakup_dectlk: module is from the staging directory, the
quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 56.640036] synth probe
[ 56.640039] Ports not available, trying to steal them
[ 56.640042] Unable to allocate port at 3f8, errno -16
[ 56.640044] Dectalk Express: not found
[ 56.640045] dectlk: device probe failed
[ 67.012005] speakup: unregistering synth device /dev/synth
[ 70.985966] speakup: module is from the staging directory, the quality is
unknown, you have been warned.
[ 70.986851] input: Speakup as /devices/virtual/input/input8
[ 70.986983] initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
[ 70.987006] speakup 3.1.6: initialized
[ 70.987008] synth name on entry is: dectlk
[ 70.987055] speakup_soft: module is from the staging directory, the
quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 70.987193] synth probe
[ 70.987230] initialized device: /dev/softsynth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 26)
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