All that will happen will be that you'll have no speech. Greg On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 06:10:29PM -0500, Jack Daniels wrote: > Thanks Janina, I have saved the info, but think I will read up more on > Linux patching and kernal compiling, and hope learn enough to feel > confident to compile my first kernal, and add Speakup so it can be > selected and booted from the hard disk. I was looking for a quick and easy > way to get Speakup talking, and then read more later. > > I guess I will need to put in the effort up front, and learn about this > topic and work it out. It was suggested that I first try compiling a kernal > to make sure everything works correctly, then try it with Speakup after > that. > > BTW, what happens if Speakup doesn't find a synthesizer connected when it > tries to load? I may not have the DEC Express connected each and every time. > > Thanks for your reply. > > Jack > At 11:01 AM 11/24/01 -0500, you wrote: > >On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Jack Daniels wrote: > > > >> >> I have a very small PC installed with > >> >> Redhat 7.1, kernal 2.4.2-12 running on a P133 with no CDROM. > >> >> 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? > > > >It seems to me you could get this working with the standard installation > >floppy that one would create using boot.img. There are such on the speakup > >website and they already have speakup built into them. You need two files > >from the speakup site to test this: the appropriate boot.img and > >rawrite.exe. > > > >1.) rawrite.exe is a DOS executable for creating floppy disks from > >image files like boot.img. Shutdown your Windows to MS-DOS before using > >rawrite for best, most reliable results; > > > >2.) Get boot.img via anonymous ftp from: > > www.linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/redhat/7.2 > > > >Regretably, the rawrite.exe isn't there, and perhaps that's an oversight. > >Bill, are you listening? If you decide to try my suggestion, perhaps > >someone can point you to a download location closer to home, but you can > >certainly get it from redhat.com. It'll be in a dos_utils directory. There > >should be no problem using 7.2 disks on your 7.1 system, by the way; > > > >3.) You need to be careful about your speech synthesizer while using > >rawrite. Generally, it's a good idea to kill speech while rawrite is > >creating your floppy. So, as you hit enter on the last rawrite prompt, > >which is the third prompt it gives you, be ready to kill your speech > >immediately; > > > >54.) If nothing went wrong in the rawrite floppy you'll have a bootable > >floppy that you can try on your linux system. As you boot, monitor the > >floppy disk for activity. If your system beeps as it begins to load the > >OS, that will help. There will be a brief amount of floppy disk activity > >at this point and then the disk stops. You're at a boot> prompt which > >doesn't talk (though it could, see below); At this point type: > > > > linux -s speakup_synth=dectlk speakup_ser=1 > > > >I believe that even with the mismatch in installation versions this should > >still come up talking. If it does, you can certainly look around natively, > >and you can begin to contemplate getting a native kernel with speakup onto > >your system. But, that's a topic for another day. > > > >Certainly, there will be a good number of things that won't work because > >of the kernel mismatches. But, you should have enough to get started with. > > > >PS: The boot> prompt can be made to speak to any serial device with an > >appropriate lin in the sysconfig file on the floppy: > > > >serial=1,9600N8 > > > >would be the appropriate lin in this instance, and you could certainly > >insert this line using a DOS text editor. It goes just above the first > >"label" statement. > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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
