Hi Matt, Thanks for all your answers. My synth is a doubletalk pc set to the default base adress of 29E. Greg Nowak ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Campbell <mattcampbell@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 1:31 PM Subject: Re: a ton of questions > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > Does linux support winmodem technology at all? Somehow I've got the sinking > > feeling that the answer is no, but I thought I'd ask anyway. > > You can find drivers for some Winmodems at www.linmodems.org. > > > In my c++ programming under windows, I've used 'iostream.h' to handle input > > and output streams. However, I've noticed to my surprise that this header > > doesn't exist in the gcc 2.7.2.3 include directory. What do I use instead? > > You need to compile C++ programs with g++, not gcc. Also, you should > install the egcs package and use that. GCC 2.7.2.3 is old and I can't think > of any reason why you would want to use it. > > > I know I'll probably be smerked by some of you for asking this one, but > > where can I download a free DOS emulator for linux? > > There's a package called dosemu which is basically a PC emulator capable of > running DOS or some similar operating system. You can get a free MS-DOS > clone at www.freedos.org. > > > I've also heard that it is possible for speakup to speak in lilo at the boot > > prompt. How do I set that up with slackware 7.1? > > What kind of synthesizer do you have? If it's an external synthesizer, to > what serial port is it connected and what is the baud, parity, and number of > data bits? Speakup itself doesn't support speech at the LILO prompt, but > LILO itself can output its messages to a serial port, so if you have an > external synthesizer you can probably configure LILO to send the output to > the synthesizer. > > > Are there any screensavers for linux that would turn off the monitor after a > > certin amount of noneuse both at the login and shell prompts? > > If your computer supports Advanced Power Management, then you can > reconfigure the kernel so that it will turn off the screen after a certain > time of inactivity. > > > P.S. One more question,: Does speakup speak under x? > > No. There are a few projects underway to provide screen access for the GUI > in Linux, but I haven't seen any usable results yet. > > -- > Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/> ICQ #: 33005941 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
