Hi Whoops, sorry my mistake, don't know what I was thinking. Sorry for any inconvience this may have caused. Gena >On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Georgina wrote: > >> Either of your cards will work > >This is WRONG! > >The dectalk PC card is *NOT* supported at this time. This is a common >question so I'll repeat it - the dectalk PC is NOT supported. The reason >for this is that the dec PC needs to have its software loaded into it by >the screenreader before it will work. As it is right now, speakup >synthesiser drivers must be initialised at boot time and of course, there >are no filesystems mounted from which to load the dec PC's internal >software in order to send it to the synth. I presume that the size of this >software makes putting it in speakup itself prohibitive. It's situations >like this that provide strong insentive for modularisation of speakup >drivers, as people have been wanting dec PC support for as long as I can >remember, at least since the external dectalks became supported. > >I should add that the doubletalk PC is well and truly supported, it being >the first synth to work with speakup. > >Geoff. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
