Hi Roman: First of all, According to the Apollo 2A documentation, you should be able to do @? (at question) to get the Apollo to say its version and ROM. I am curious about the timeout messages you saw. The one I think you may have seen says Apollo: timed out. If that's true then it means the uart holding register is not getting cleared fast enough. There is a #define near the top of the speakup_apollo.c driver for the constant SPK_XMITR_TIMEOUT. The default value currently is one million; I recomend you set it to two million just for grins. That will double how long the driver will wait for the holding register to be cleared. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
