Re: DecTalk External (decext) testers wanted!

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Hi Greg,

Thanks very much. It looks like migration for bns got missed out. It
is not in the patch
http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/2017-April/060648.html. I
will fix that today and let you know. It won't require a full kernel
build this time. Just rebuild of speakup.

Okash

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, so I've built the new kernel. I have a braille 'n speak connected
> to ttyS0. I'm wanting to try the on-board serial port first,
> before I move to a usb to serial converter.
>
> With only the speakup_main module loaded out of the speakup modules, I
> type in:
>
> modprobe speakup_bns ser=0 start=1
>
> and get back:
>
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'speakup_bns': No such device
>
> The relevant dmesg output is:
>
> "[   82.864734] speakup_bns: module is from the staging directory, the
> quality is unknown, you have been warned.
> [   82.865621] synth probe
> [   82.865626] Ports not available, trying to steal them
> [   82.865635] Unable to allocate port at 3f8, errno -16
> [   82.865637] Braille 'N Speak: not found
> [   82.865638] bns: device probe failed"
>
> The modinfo output is:
>
> "filename:
> /lib/modules/4.10.9/kernel/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_bns.ko
> version:        2.11
> license:        GPL
> description:    Speakup support for Braille 'n Speak synthesizers
> author:         David Borowski
> author:         Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> srcversion:     AD55A47746A5B337C0BBEEE
> depends:        speakup
> staging:        Y
> intree:         Y
> vermagic:       4.10.9 SMP mod_unload modversions 686
> parm:           ser:Set the serial port for the synthesizer
> (0-based). (int)
> parm:           start:Start the synthesizer once it is
> loaded. (short)"
>
> I thought all the drivers were ported to use the new tty layer
> support. Is this not the case?
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:48:42PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have updated the repository.
>>   > Now there is speakup2.tgz instead of speakup.tgz (to avoid
>> confusion between the two versions)
>>   > tty-export.patch includes ldisc related exports that were missed
>> out the first time round
>>
>> Just to clarify, the problem is that kernel 4.11 that I developed
>> against has some issues with USB and therefore not best one to test
>> against at the moment. speakup.tgz I sent contained some code which
>> would only compile on 4.11 and that was the problem Greg pointed out.
>>
>> I have now gone through the process on my system again and made sure
>> it compiles on 4.10.x and the above changes reflect that. So please
>> follow the steps from beginning with the updated tty-export.patch and
>> speakup2.tgz.
>>
>> Okash
>
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