Do you have anything else on your Linux machine, like WIndows98 or DOS? ******* ******* ******* have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still alive! Here is the URL: http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/ ******* ******* ******* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reinhard Stebner" <raydar@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:31 AM Subject: external synth > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
