dmesg help wanted

[Tony Baechler]

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I didn't see any replies, so here are my thoughts.  First, probably the
dmesg output isn't going to be that helpful unless one can sit in front of
your system and look at the various modules, so no point in sending it and
I'm not going to look at it.

You didn't say whether you're using hardware or software speech and I'm
not sure offhand what kernel Vinux uses.  If you're using hardware speech,
probably the Arch kernel is too new and has the broken Speakup serial
ports, meaning that your serial synthesizer will never be found by the
kernel.  The only things you can do are either downgrade to an older
kernel or switch to software speech.  If you're running software speech on
both Vinux and Arch, Arch probably isn't finding your sound card or it
isn't using ALSA.  I don't use Arch and I can't give more specifics, but I
would try loading the module for your sound card by hand, killing espeakup
if it's running, remove and reload the speakup_soft module and rerun
espeakup.  If that helps, look in /etc to see how ALSA modules are
configured.  Someone else here probably knows more about Arch than I do.

On 4/14/2013 11:09 AM, aerospace1028 at hotmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking for a volunteer or two who can help me sift through the
> output of dmesg to find out why the talking-arch CD won't talk on my
> laptop.
> 
> It's been a while since I last posted to the list.  I had wanted to
> find the time to write down the failure messages and pass them along,
> but my braille notetaker also failed by the time my scheduled cleared
> up enough.
> 
> I downloaded a vinux CD and found that it has speach when I boot.
> 
> I used a thumb-drive to copy the output of dmesg from both the
> talking-arch CD (which isn't working) and the working vinux CD.
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