Thanks Tom. Unfortunately, no way to add a CDROM to this machine. It's a very small computer, (2.5X11.5X8.5) it has built-in everything, and room for only a hard disk and a floppy. I picked it up for $25 a while ago, and thought it would make a neat Linux box. Perhaps a parallel CD drive will become a possibility for me down the road. I already have the Speakup files on the system and will just go ahead and begin reading the kernal info and start that learning curve now. If I run into problems, I know where to come for help. Jack At 11:32 PM 11/22/01 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, my comments are below inside your message.I have tried to answer all >your questions as clearly as I can. I hope this helps. >See below. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jack Daniels" <Labitup at home.com> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:30 AM >Subject: Another newbie > > >> Hi, I am new to Speakup, and I have been following the list for just a >> short while now. I want to learn whether the following is possible, and >> how to best accomplish it. > >That's great. I'll see what we can do for you. >> > >> First, some info about my Linux box. I have a very small PC installed >with >> Redhat 7.1, kernal 2.4.2-12 running on a P133 with no CDROM. >> A friend set it up for me and I am currently using a serial connection >from >> My Win98 PC. >> >> What I want to be able to do is to insert a floppy with Speakup and any >> necessary boot files and have Linux come up talking. Is this possible? >> If so, what do I need to get/do? > >Yes, it is possible, but someone would have to compile you a talking boot >disk image of Speakup, for your kernel and send it too you. >Another suggestion is to get Emacspeak rpm, put it on a floppy, and install >it to your box. At least you would have speech natively on your Linux box >until you were able to build a Speakup kernel for your machine. > >> I want to use a DEC Express on COM2, keeping the serial connection on >COM1. >> > >This is totally possible. Speakup [probes for your synths ports, and almost >always finds the synth on ttys0 and ttys1. which are com1 and com2 under >dos. > > > >> If this is possible, and I thought it was from reading the list for just a >> short time, what files do I need? >> How do I use them? >> Any info out there detailing this process? >> > >Unfortunately, I don't know of any specific documents that exactly gives you >a step by step howto on what to do, but most of us are old hands, or at >least know something about what we are doing. >Read the kernel howto, and the readme documentation in your kernel source >directory. >You basically, will need a clean kernel source tree, and the speakup source. >Also make sure you have kernel headers installed, compilers installed, and >are able to build kernels. > >> I am sure there is info I have left out, so please ask any questions, and >I >> will answer them to the best of my ability. Rememberr, I am new, never >> built a kernal, the more detailed your response, the better. > >Ok, is it possible that you can get a cd rom drive for your computer? Bill >has Red Hat 7.2 cd's that come with Speakup built in. All you do is install >the cd's, restart, and wam you have speech. >I've been where you are now. Looking at a stock distribution, and wondering >how to get it to talk. Here is how I learned to do it if it is a stock >distribution and not a Speakup modified distribution. > >I downloaded Emacspeak current version, and loaded my Dectalk Express. Then, >I accessed the shell by doing alt+x, and typed shell. >Once I had a talking shell, I then installed the Speakup source from floppy, >and put in the Linux cd, and installed the kernel source. Then, built a >talking kernel. >Since you don't have a cd rom drive you may have to substitute by first >configuring wvdial, and then while in Emacs with Emacspeak do an alt+x and >type term. >This puts Emacs in a terminal mode, and you can run wvdial & to get your >internet connection. >Then, you can run the Linux ftp program to ftp files from the ftp.kernel.org >site to your box. > >So here is the summary. While it is possible to do what you want it does >require some compiling, configuring, and large learning curves. However, >once you do it a couple of times it won't seam so huge. >However, if you want a quick and simple solution see if you can get Bill's >modified Red Hat 7.2 disks from the Speakup ftp site, and install that. That >way you get speech out of the box, and can consentrate on learning the os >without plunging head-long into advanced compiling, configuring, and all >that. > > > >> >> Thank you in advance for helping another newbie get up and talking with >> Speakup! >> >> Jack >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
