hi, that is very nice, it made lilo talk. but speakup still can't find the dectalk. what is the option to force a serial port? and if i use it does it check for the synth still or just assume it's there? Bart frankiec at unforgettable.com writes: > Yup. I know all about this problem. > > One thing is you will want the latest driver which will be included in > speakup 0.09. This should be available in the next few days. > > However this isn't the fix for your problem. I would try puting the > 'serial=0,9600N8' in your lilo.conf at the top. Run lilo, reboot, and > watch it work. > > HTH > FC > > > On Wed, 31 May 2000, bart bunting wrote: > > > > > hi Kirk and all, > > > > A while back Kirk gave me a copy of the new dec express driver, and > > someone else, I forget who, also gave me a copy of the old sluggish > > one. > > > > I am sad to say I have had no luck after much trying to get either of them to work. my dectalk isn't found, no matter which machine or driver i try it on. The dectalk, works perfectly however with emacspeak. has anyone else had this problem? > > > > any suggestions apreciated! > > > > i'm using dectalk firmware 4 2 cd nov 8 96. > > > > thanks in advance. > > > > Bart > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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