Thanks for the word of advice. This is what I am going to do. Thanks for your help, and will keep you up to date on my com problems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 1:59 PM Subject: Re: external synth > I think it may be best to break this problem down. While we can establish > that the synth itself works with the use of another machine it will not > further assist with the target machine. > > Next thing I noticed is that you can no longer get your synth to work on > the target machine with a DOS boot disk and screen reader. Since this used > to work, I think we can safely say it is probably not a linux problem. > > Can you get sighted assistance? I wonder if your serial ports are > configured correctly. Did the target machine have an working OS with > speech in its current configuration before starting with Linux? I suspect > you have a port problem. Since you seem to be familiar with DOS I would > stick to the DOS boot disk and get it to work properly with the desired > synth before going forward. If the hardware isn't configured properly all > bets are off. > > -- > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > ------------------ > > Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. > Alfred North Whitehead > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
