[gentoo-accessibility] 2004.2 problem

[gentoo-accessibility] 2004.2 problem

[Whitley CTR Cecil H]

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Hi,
I brought my external dectalk express home tonight to install 2004.2 on my
home system.  I ran into a real problem, and I don't know what would be
really important in a bug report.  
I have an Asus p4c800-e deluxe motherboard with p4 3.4 and an s-ata hd.  I
also have an USB 2.0 external IDE drive bay with an ata-100 hd which shows
up as /dev/sda.  All went well, booted with speech, mounted drives, etc.
Only problem, the onboard Intel CSA Gig-e network adapter wasn't fully
configured.  When I ran net-setup the machine locked with no speech.
On-screen msg was 
disabling interupt 17
n interrupt not disabled
Or something similar (working with a 13 year old).  

I searched gentoo bugs for csa (no joy) and p4c800-e deluxe (joy, but only
for pnpbios).    

It should be noted that I used the command line
smp speakup_synth=dectlk
So the smp enabled 2.6 kernel was loaded.  Prior boot I had used 
gentoo speakup_synth=dectlk
But the 2.4 kernel did not fully recognize/drive the onboard sound.  Since I
was hoping to get software speech up and running the soundcard support is
critical.  Also, the smp support for hyperthreading is a "nice to have". is
the driverr version listed is 5.x.x and the Asus site has an Intel 7.0.x
driver for linux for the CSA adapter.  It also has an ALSA 0.9.6 soundmax
driver.  The CSA driver is listed for RH 7.3, 8, 9 and SUSE 9.0, I assume
this is all 2.4.x kernels?  I don't want to post a bug without fully vetting
the problem since I assume that since there is at least one posted/fixed bug
for the p4c800-e deluxe that someone else is using this board with no
problem now.  The only question that is left is are they using the onboard
ethernet, and if so, is this a problem specific to having speakup or
optionally the serial port active?  Guidance please?  What can I do to
provide the most helpfull bug report with the most accurate problem
description I can come up with?

Thanks,

Cecil Whitley

P.s.  Since I have the universal CD, should I try patching the
gentoo-dev-sources kernel with the driver from the Asus site?  I presume
that I can get all of this built without networking, if my reading of the
install.txt is correct?  

Now, what I have noticed 

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Re: [gentoo-accessibility] 2004.2 problem

[Deedra Waters]

This won't help you solve your problem much, but i can tell you that
speakup's software speech won't work on the livecd. Currently the livecd
only supports the hardware synths, and doesn't support the internal
decktalk because it requires a seperate program. I just wanted to
clarify this for you. Hopefully one of the releng folks can help you
sort this.


On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 00:22:24 -0400
> From: Whitley CTR Cecil H <WhitleyCH.ctr@cherrypoint.usmc.mil>
> Reply-To: gentoo-accessibility@lists.gentoo.org
> To: "'gentoo-accessibility@gentoo.org'"
>     <gentoo-accessibility@lists.gentoo.org>
> Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] 2004.2 problem
>
> Hi,
> I brought my external dectalk express home tonight to install 2004.2 on my
> home system.  I ran into a real problem, and I don't know what would be
> really important in a bug report.
> I have an Asus p4c800-e deluxe motherboard with p4 3.4 and an s-ata hd.  I
> also have an USB 2.0 external IDE drive bay with an ata-100 hd which shows
> up as /dev/sda.  All went well, booted with speech, mounted drives, etc.
> Only problem, the onboard Intel CSA Gig-e network adapter wasn't fully
> configured.  When I ran net-setup the machine locked with no speech.
> On-screen msg was
> disabling interupt 17
> n interrupt not disabled
> Or something similar (working with a 13 year old).
>
> I searched gentoo bugs for csa (no joy) and p4c800-e deluxe (joy, but only
> for pnpbios).
>
> It should be noted that I used the command line
> smp speakup_synth=dectlk
> So the smp enabled 2.6 kernel was loaded.  Prior boot I had used
> gentoo speakup_synth=dectlk
> But the 2.4 kernel did not fully recognize/drive the onboard sound.  Since I
> was hoping to get software speech up and running the soundcard support is
> critical.  Also, the smp support for hyperthreading is a "nice to have". is
> the driverr version listed is 5.x.x and the Asus site has an Intel 7.0.x
> driver for linux for the CSA adapter.  It also has an ALSA 0.9.6 soundmax
> driver.  The CSA driver is listed for RH 7.3, 8, 9 and SUSE 9.0, I assume
> this is all 2.4.x kernels?  I don't want to post a bug without fully vetting
> the problem since I assume that since there is at least one posted/fixed bug
> for the p4c800-e deluxe that someone else is using this board with no
> problem now.  The only question that is left is are they using the onboard
> ethernet, and if so, is this a problem specific to having speakup or
> optionally the serial port active?  Guidance please?  What can I do to
> provide the most helpfull bug report with the most accurate problem
> description I can come up with?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cecil Whitley
>
> P.s.  Since I have the universal CD, should I try patching the
> gentoo-dev-sources kernel with the driver from the Asus site?  I presume
> that I can get all of this built without networking, if my reading of the
> install.txt is correct?
>
> Now, what I have noticed
>

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Deedra Waters - Gentoo developer relations, accessibility and infrastructure -
dmwaters@gentoo.org
Gentoo linux: http://www.gentoo.org


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RE: [gentoo-accessibility] 2004.2 problem

[Whitley CTR Cecil H]

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Hi Deedra,
>This won't help you solve your problem much, but i can tell you that
>speakup's software speech won't work on the livecd. Currently the livecd
>only supports the hardware synths, and doesn't support the internal
>decktalk because it requires a seperate program. I just wanted to
>clarify this for you. Hopefully one of the releng folks can help you
>sort this.
Yes, I realized that the livecd wouldn't support software speech.  Software
speech is a post-install goal.  That's why I used the external DecTalk
express for the install.  I've got a different system with the internal
Dectalk card.  I'm going to try the same steps tonight without the dectalk
or speech to see if the networking code works in the absence of both.  If
so, once I get the stage 1 tarball on disk I can try applying the
motherboard manufacturers linux drivers for the Intel hardware.  If that
goes well, then at least the post-install system will be usable.  It will
also allow me to post a proposed solution along with a bug report.  I just
don't see this as a speakup problem, although there may be some sort of
interaction there (unproven assumption which is probably wrong in the first
place).  

As an alternative, I could disable the on-board ethernet and use a PCI
network card (i've got several laying around).  I was just trying to avoid
popping the case.  That's the main reason I was using the external USB drive
bay.  BTW, the drive was recognized beautifully.

More to follow.
Thanks,

Cecil

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