Hello all, I am having the follow8ing problem on my Linux box running speakup with slackware 7.1 using a acentsa and a dectlak express. When booting up for the first time, the system does not load slackware off of the hard drive. When I put the boot disk in the drive, it does not find my acent sa. I decided to see if Linux would work with my dectalk express. On the machine I want to put it on, I can not get it to talk with acent or dectalk. I was able to install slackware with the acentsa, but now it will not talk. Before this, I was having a problem were acent would talk after I put a dos boot disk in the machine with my dos screen reader on it. It would talk. I would then reboot the then put he boot disk from Linux in it and it would talk fine. If I were to reboot the system, it would not talk. Ten I decided to install Linux with the dectalk express thinking there mite be a problem with my acentsa. Well, now the machine will not talk with the dos boot disk in the machine with acent in or not. I know there is no problem with the acent because I was able to put it on my win 98 machine and have it come pu talking with no problem. Then I decided to see if the Linux boot disk would talk in the win 98 machine, and it did talk with the dectalk boot disk. I got it to talk on the 98 machine with a ramdisk speakup_ser=0 Wel, I thaught I found the problem. I put that same boot disk on the Linux only computer and type the same line and discuvered that the machine still would not talk. So then I started to mess around with com seting so I typed ser=0, restarted the machine because it did not talk. Typed ser=1 and did the same thing. I did it for all ser all up to 3 and could not get the machine to talk with eiterh acentsa or dectalk. Are there any ideas people have? One more tidbit of info, if I put the bootdisk in the 98 machine and just press enter at the prompt, it will not find acent or dectalk on this machine, and I do not have any ser devices. Thanks for any help. PS, this is my first time installing any type of Linux os.
