Possibly Related to Keypad Issue

Possibly Related to Keypad Issue

[Zachary]

Hi,
I have been a bit more successful in attempting to use the unresponsive 
keypad.  Not much, not enough to work, but a bit.
I have noticed the following message, which I suspect may have something to 
do with the problem, being sent to my Dectalk Express on /dev/ser0:
Timeout Flush
Possibly this is related to the distribution itself, not the problem.  I 
don't know, at this point I just want something that works.
Basically what happens is that when I boot up an installation cd, the 
program speaks fine.  Reads all kernel messages, etc.
However, I press a key, any key, and things fall apart.  The keypad and 
entire keyboard becomes sluggish, unusably so.  I cannot do anything and 
expect a response.  The speakup program seems to be extremely slow.  It 
acknowledges every action, eventually.  But it takes it's time about it.
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Zack 

Re: Possibly Related to Keypad Issue

[Steve Holmes]

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This reminds me of a problem I had some while back when I had some
interrupt conflicts on my '486 with IDE controlers.  Be sure you
aren't getting any messages that say something like, "Loss of
interrupt streaming" or something to that effect.  I also ran into
some extreme sluggishnes recently when I started getting some strange
communication errors with my hard drive but then that mess was
accompanied with a bunch of I/O errors and having to re-tune my file
system amazingly, I didn't lose a single file during that crisis.
Since then, I haven't had any more problems.  But I digressed; it
sounds like some kind of hardware issue to me.  When you press a key,
you cause speakup to send a "shut up" command to the synth.  I don't
remember what kind of synth you're using but if it is serial by
chance, there could be some possible collision on the serial line.  Be
sure and verify your communications parameters on your synth; I
believe Speakup uses hardware handshaking in all synths except for the
old Dectalk.

HTH.

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0700, Zachary wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been a bit more successful in attempting to use the unresponsive 
> keypad.  Not much, not enough to work, but a bit.
> I have noticed the following message, which I suspect may have something to 
> do with the problem, being sent to my Dectalk Express on /dev/ser0:
> Timeout Flush
> Possibly this is related to the distribution itself, not the problem.  I 
> don't know, at this point I just want something that works.
> Basically what happens is that when I boot up an installation cd, the 
> program speaks fine.  Reads all kernel messages, etc.
> However, I press a key, any key, and things fall apart.  The keypad and 
> entire keyboard becomes sluggish, unusably so.  I cannot do anything and 
> expect a response.  The speakup program seems to be extremely slow.  It 
> acknowledges every action, eventually.  But it takes it's time about it.
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Zack 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 

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Re: Possibly Related to Keypad Issue

[Ahmed]

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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Possibly Related to Keypad Issue


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>
> This reminds me of a problem I had some while back when I had some
> interrupt conflicts on my '486 with IDE controlers.  Be sure you
> aren't getting any messages that say something like, "Loss of
> interrupt streaming" or something to that effect.  I also ran into
> some extreme sluggishnes recently when I started getting some strange
> communication errors with my hard drive but then that mess was
> accompanied with a bunch of I/O errors and having to re-tune my file
> system amazingly, I didn't lose a single file during that crisis.
> Since then, I haven't had any more problems.  But I digressed; it
> sounds like some kind of hardware issue to me.  When you press a key,
> you cause speakup to send a "shut up" command to the synth.  I don't
> remember what kind of synth you're using but if it is serial by
> chance, there could be some possible collision on the serial line.  Be
> sure and verify your communications parameters on your synth; I
> believe Speakup uses hardware handshaking in all synths except for the
> old Dectalk.
>
> HTH.
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0700, Zachary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have been a bit more successful in attempting to use the unresponsive
> > keypad.  Not much, not enough to work, but a bit.
> > I have noticed the following message, which I suspect may have something
to
> > do with the problem, being sent to my Dectalk Express on /dev/ser0:
> > Timeout Flush
> > Possibly this is related to the distribution itself, not the problem.  I
> > don't know, at this point I just want something that works.
> > Basically what happens is that when I boot up an installation cd, the
> > program speaks fine.  Reads all kernel messages, etc.
> > However, I press a key, any key, and things fall apart.  The keypad and
> > entire keyboard becomes sluggish, unusably so.  I cannot do anything and
> > expect a response.  The speakup program seems to be extremely slow.  It
> > acknowledges every action, eventually.  But it takes it's time about it.
> > Any help is greatly appreciated,
> > Zack
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
>
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Re: Possibly Related to Keypad Issue

[Sean McMahon]

How do you check for interupt conflicts or colusions on the serial line as you
put it?  Is that info something that shows up in dmesg?
Sean
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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: Possibly Related to Keypad Issue


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> This reminds me of a problem I had some while back when I had some
> interrupt conflicts on my '486 with IDE controlers.  Be sure you
> aren't getting any messages that say something like, "Loss of
> interrupt streaming" or something to that effect.  I also ran into
> some extreme sluggishnes recently when I started getting some strange
> communication errors with my hard drive but then that mess was
> accompanied with a bunch of I/O errors and having to re-tune my file
> system amazingly, I didn't lose a single file during that crisis.
> Since then, I haven't had any more problems.  But I digressed; it
> sounds like some kind of hardware issue to me.  When you press a key,
> you cause speakup to send a "shut up" command to the synth.  I don't
> remember what kind of synth you're using but if it is serial by
> chance, there could be some possible collision on the serial line.  Be
> sure and verify your communications parameters on your synth; I
> believe Speakup uses hardware handshaking in all synths except for the
> old Dectalk.
>
> HTH.
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0700, Zachary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have been a bit more successful in attempting to use the unresponsive
> > keypad.  Not much, not enough to work, but a bit.
> > I have noticed the following message, which I suspect may have something to
> > do with the problem, being sent to my Dectalk Express on /dev/ser0:
> > Timeout Flush
> > Possibly this is related to the distribution itself, not the problem.  I
> > don't know, at this point I just want something that works.
> > Basically what happens is that when I boot up an installation cd, the
> > program speaks fine.  Reads all kernel messages, etc.
> > However, I press a key, any key, and things fall apart.  The keypad and
> > entire keyboard becomes sluggish, unusably so.  I cannot do anything and
> > expect a response.  The speakup program seems to be extremely slow.  It
> > acknowledges every action, eventually.  But it takes it's time about it.
> > Any help is greatly appreciated,
> > Zack
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
>
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