right, the dectalk pc is not supported under linux by speakup, but it is by emacspeak. if you wish to run emacspeak then contact me offlist at: ss at saqibshaikh.com i personally prefer emacspeak because speakup doesn't have full text editing support yet, and text editing seems the key to doing most tasks under linux. saqib ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Crawford" <ccrawford@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 2:28 PM Subject: Dectalk internal pc card? > Well, I have finally decided to take a trip into this brave new world of > Linux to see what I can do with it. I will be using an old 200 mhz > computer with a full linux install that has an internal dectalk card which > I don't think is supported at this point. Does anyone know if it will > be? The other alternative is to run the redhat Linux that I got off their > ftp site and burned on to cd's but not sure what to do with it from dos. on > my new and very fast computer. I will be getting some help with that soon. > > Any advice for novices? I hope to get good enough with this to run a lan > with internet connectivity as well. Then if I stay with it, I might even > learn this pearl language and start programming again. God, what a thought! > > -- Charlie Crawford. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
