Thanks Greg. Jack At 05:44 PM 11/24/01 -0600, you wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
