Hi, Voictor: At the boot prompt, when you're booting from the ltlkb floppy image you need to type all of the following on one line before pressing enter: text speakup_ser=1 At least, that's what uncorked the genie in my bottle. Your mileage may vary, but it sounds like you didn't give the speakup variable a go. Janina On Thu, 11 May 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote: > Janina, I did what you suggested, but nothing works still. Here is what I > did: > > downloaded ltlkb.bin > > with rawrite copied it onto an empty floppy. > Connected Doubletalk LT to com1, both machines are desktops, BTW. > Reboot computer, prompt comes up. I type > > text <ENTER> > > The booting process proceeds as if there is no speakup built-in. > Do you have any other suggestions? > Vic > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Cc: <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:13 PM > Subject: Re: Redhat6.1 boot disks with Speakup don't seem to work > withDoubleTalk LT > > > > Vic: > > > > I had the same problem with my IBM Thinkpad 560Z. > > > > The issue turned out to be that the serial port on the backplane of the > > Thinkpad was being seen by Linux as ttyS1. Seems the irda port on the > > front plane is ttyS0. So, the fix was to add the following at the boot > > prompt: > > > > speakup_ser=1 > > > > so my boot prompt response became: > > > > text speakup_ser=1 > > > > That did it. > > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Victor Tsaran > > wrote: > > > > > I downloaded the boot disk for RedHat6.1, ltlkb.bin, and copied it onto > a > > > floppy. I tried it on two machines and in both cases the machines > booted, but > > > no speech ever came up. Anyone have an idea why this behavior? > > > Vic > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
