Think about it. USB ports take up less backplate space than a serial port. In the space you usually stick 1 9-pin serial port, you squeeze 2 or 4 usb ports with one bus accepting up to 128 hot swappable devices. Top speed for the USB is 12 megabits per second, so you don't have the latency associated with modems if they are usb. If speakup ever becomes modularized and Kirk gets given a USB tripple talk who knows what can happen? Nothing motivates you more to write a driver if somebody gives you the hardware :-) My transport speech server for emacspeak proves that :-) On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:15:49PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Why does Intel want serial ports off? Is it because their junky CPUs such as > the celeron have trouble running them (ha, ha, ha)? > Greg > ] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.eu.org> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:20 AM > Subject: Re: off topic but urgent > > > > The usb stuff requires a daemon and modules to run it; > > you can't get those loaded until after boot so speakup won't run with it > since > > usb isn't active early enough. I'd say you're screwed :-( > > Why they have to take serial ports off notebooks altogether is beyond me; > they're still more > > common than usb although intel wants it otherwise. > > > > Regards, Kerry. > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:14PM +1100, Ben van Poppel wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've just purchased a Toshiba Satellite 1710 laptop, and, due to a > > > gross misunderstanding on my part (being totally out of touch with > > > laptop developments and ignorant of USB altogether) found out too late > > > that the thing's got no bloody serial port, only a USB port. I can > > > still return the thing if all else fails, but has anybody had > > > experience with USB to serial adaptors under Linux? In particular, has > > > anybody managed to get serial speech devices talking under either > > > Emacspeak or Speakup using such an adaptor? > > > > > > Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, as I need to work out > > > whether I should get this box working or swap it. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Ben > > > -- > > > '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon, > > > worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum > > > everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the > > > great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, > > > you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not > > > because they say yes, but because they don't say no."' > > > > > > (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302) > > > > > > -- > > > '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon, > > > worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum > > > everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the > > > great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, > > > you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not > > > because they say yes, but because they don't say no."' > > > > > > (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org > > Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or > khoath at lis.net.au > > ICQ UIN: 8226547 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547
