If the ports are on the isa bus they can't share an interrupt without the risc of burning the bus driver. Some synths _require_ the irq to show up and require to receive, but some dos screen readers do not use the interrupts, speakup needs to read from the synth. On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:51:26PM -0500, Kirk Wood wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, tyler spivey wrote: > > > ok, i can make speakup probe for my decpc, i set speakup for decext. > > i am using commo term prog, i set capture to com3 mode raw. > > when i use say line or shut up, it takes several minutes to process the data. > > what could cause this? would dectalk express driver cause a better delay? > > I am guessing your synth is on what DOS would call com1. As such it would > be sharing an IRQ with com3. Since they share an IRQ when you issue a > command for the synth, it must wait in line for the activity on com3 to > subside. The answer isn't drivers. The answer is reconfigure your > hardware. In dos you can actually make continous use of com1 com2 and > com5. Skip 3 and 4. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 62823451
