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[Tony Baechler]

Hi all,

I'm deleting a lot of overquoting and various replies.  A mention was 
made that there are hardware issues with the Express and Linux.  What 
are they?  I use it frequently in Linux and haven't had any major 
issues.  There is an issue with HAL probing serial ports, but in most 
cases, it isn't needed and you can disable hald from starting.  I can 
post a workaround if you need HAL for your hardware.  There were also 
various bugs and inconveniences with Speakup, but I personally did some 
work to get them fixed and there should be no problem now.  If you're 
still experiencing hardware issues and have upgraded to the latest 
Speakup, please let me know, either here, on the Speakup list or 
privately.  You'll probably also need to upgrade your kernel as it won't 
work on anything less than 2.6.26.  The Speakup drivers are in staging 
as of 2.6.37.  I think the latest version of Speakup is 3.1.6, but I 
know the fixes are in 3.1.5 and probably 3.1.4.  I'm running 3.1.5 here 
as that's what ships with Debian Squeeze in the 2.6.32 kernel.