Hi! I have tried all the suggestions up to this point and still with no success. The last thing I have tried is using Speak Freely using the address and port number I was told should work. I think the version I downloaded is 7.1 for windows. I have been working with this computer in this endeavor for about a month. I think I will just have to conclude that it just won't work unless I know more about what I am doing. My next plan is to build a computer to run Linux. I don't know much about this either but it looks more promising than trying to get it to work onthis one. I appreciate all the help that I have found here. When I do get a computer that looks promising, I will start from the beginning and try it again. Right now, what I need is something I can do successfully. I will be back when I know more about what I am doing. I have gotten some good ideas from people writing about other topics on this list as well. I thank everyone who has invested time and energy in helping me directly and indirectly. Enjoy! Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaare Dehard" <kaare@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 2:07 AM Subject: RE: not working yet > sometimes it's a very long while, when I first installed I rebooted a couple > of times when using the downloaded root and boot disks. this isn't the way > you can expect it to work after all the install happens though. Also I use a > transport in dos and linux and when switching over from dos I have to shut > down the synth and turn it on to get a complete initialization before > speakup will speak to me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of John Covici > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:33 PM > To: speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: not working yet > > > I wonder if your failure to get speech when booting is because of one > or more of the following: > > (1) You booted your DOS system with speech loaded and then tried to > run loadlin -- the speakout has a problem with this. > > The other possibility which comes to mind is that you are not doing > the corrrect boot sequence which is to boot the disk, wait till it > stops going, hit enter and then you hear the disk for a while and then > it should start talking. > > > Hope this helps. > > -- > John Covici > covici at ccs.covici.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >