As far as I can tell Speakup can't use the Dectalk PC cards, but Emacspeak can if you build the Dectalk drivers on the blinux ftp sight. I'm not an expirt on the Dectalk PC so I don't really know how to direct you further. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Crawford" <ccrawford@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:28 AM 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 >
