Actually, I once succedded to have LILO talk on a Redhat system. is that the trestriction you speak of? Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: <frankiec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:58 AM Subject: Re: Redhat6.1 boot disks with Speakup don't seem to work withDoubleTalkLT > Vic > I think I know what your problem is. It won't be fixed by the > speakup_ser variable. If it would be fixed by the speakup_ser kernel > parameter you would type "text speakup_ser=0" because you are using com1, > which is ttyS0. > > I am going to guess that you have the problem with these machines that I > have with lots of machines that I get my hands on. If you can wait until > later on this weekend sometime I will try to build some speakup slackware > bootdisks with the talking lilo prompt. I have found that on at least one > system this has solved the detection of serial synths problem. > > The issue is that the uarts aren't awake until data gets sent through > them. Don't ask me why because I have no freekin idea. All I can tell > you is that this baffled me for about four months until I started really > understanding there behavior. This took that long for me to really see > what was going on. I couldn't narrow it down because of all of the > variables. I think that we are going to need to come up with a fix for > these problems at the speakup level but for now this is a fix. > > I can't make redhat do this because it uses syslinux and I don't think > that you can use the serial port terminal with this boot loader. Someone > please correct me if I am in error on this one. > > Hope this helps. > > FC > > > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 07:27:34 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Janina Sajka <janina at afb.net> > > Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: Redhat6.1 boot disks with Speakup don't seem to work > > withDoubleTalk LT > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
