Hi Kirk! Thanks for the advice. The problem was, however, something totally different. This is my first experience using Linux apart from some limited exploring of emacspeak about a year ago and I tackled it without the help of a sighted person, which is why I missed the option for a text or graphics mode installation at the start of the bootup procedure. Everything went well after typing "text <enter>"! Some questions come to mind from your message; read on. On 30 Nov 00, at 7:14, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Laurent: The appropriate settings are almost the default, 9600 n, > 8, 1 with hardware handshake. The unit gets best results with the > chord-s speechbox mode. My bns is rather antique (october 1994 revision) and doesn't have that option. I can, however, specify block or line handshaking. Which would be best? > > If that doesn't work automagically you can specify speakup_ser=1 for > com2 on the boot line after typing linux. So for example at the boot > prompt you would type: > > linux speakup_ser=1 When speaking of the boot prompt, do you mean the prompt which one gets when booting from the stiffy or a dos prompt when booting a system like zipspeak? (potentially silly question, I know!) > > You use 0 for com1 and so forth. > > We have rewritten parts of that driver in the cvs code but I don't > suggest you use that until you have a good understanding of linux > first. Well, I'll get there! Learning a bit of Linux is one of my Xmas holiday projects, which I hope will be very fruitful. Thanks for your efforts in helping to make it accessible! Laurent
