Hi, well, the old boot disk system no longer applies to speakup. You see in a few cvs versions back speakup was updated to be able to switch synths via the boot prompt. For example when I want to load speakup to run a Red Hat 7.2 setup I type: linux text speakup_synth=dectlk Then, my dectalk express is loaded. I also could have typed: linux text speakup_synth=bns Then, I would have been able to load my bns or braille blazer as a synth. So basically, get the standard speakup enabled boot disk, and by passing some commands to the kernel via the boot prompt you can load any of the supported synths even a null synth if you do not want speech. I mostly have used Slackware and Red Hat, but I am sure the same idea applies to Debian. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Keogh" <dwkeogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:47 AM Subject: help for a newbie > Ok guys after a bit of mucking around I've decided to go the the Debian > linux distribution but I've run into a pretty major problem. I have no > idea what to download to get speakup up and running. I've tried using Matt > Campbell's look at linux series to get started but obviously since that was > made there's been a few changes to the linux-speakup.org ftp site and > nothing seems to be documented. > > So my question is what do I download. There's nothing on that site to > indicate which boot disk is for a doubletalk internal or any other > synthesizer. They all seem to have really helpfull names like Base-10.bin > or something incredibly useless like that. The kernal files Matt was > talking about don't seem to exist in any form. When I try to get to the > disks using the web site I get a 404 error because it's linking to a non > existant index file. > If anyone can help me with this I'd really appreciate it. > > Thanks in advance > > Danny Keogh > ICQ: 72503517 > mailto:dwkeogh at optushome.com.au > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
