more on speakup bug

more on speakup bug

[John Heim]

All,

I am getting the same error message when trying to load the speakup_apollo 
module that I got when trying to load the speakup_ltlk module. The syslog 
has a line that says "Trying to free nonexistent resource".  I don't have an 
apollo synth but I don't think its even getting to the point of not finding 
that particular synth.

This bug happens only on 64 bit hardware. Is anyone successfully using a 
2.6.39 or greater kernel with a hardware speech synthesizer on a 64 bit 
machine? It looks to me as if this bug should effect more than the 
speakup_ltlk module.


It happens with a stock debian 2.6.39 kernel , a grml 3.1 kernel, and a 
3.2.2 kernel I compiled myself.

Re: more on speakup bug

[Kitty Litter]

This has been a known problem and probably will never be fixed. Just comment 
out the line which will ignore the error and hope for the best.

Re: more on speakup bug

[John Heim]

Comment out which line?  Are you saying it doesn't matter if the call to 
__release_region  works or not or that it works but gives a bogus error 
message?  Its trying to "steal" the serial ports. So it checks if they are 
available, trys to free them, and then checks again if they are free. So are 
you saying to not bother to try to free them, just go ahead and use them. Or 
are you saying try to free them but ignore whether it appears that they've 
been freed or not?




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty Litter" <n8kl@insightbb.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: more on speakup bug


> This has been a known problem and probably will never be fixed. Just 
> comment out the line which will ignore the error and hope for the best.
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