And after all that, I think I've found the answer. Lol. Why didn't I ask this to begin with when it wasn't working? Considering how long I've been using the blazie/fs note takers this should have been obvious. Anyone have an idea what communication settings I should be using in the m20 to work with speakup? If the transmission speed, data bits stop bits and the like aren't set correctly strange stuff can happen. If I can get this set right I'll be all set. Thanks. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 4/12/2002 at 6:39 PM Alex Snow wrote: >Well, at least your braille lite said something. My 2000 won't say >anything. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Justin Ekis" <JEkis at sbcglobal.net> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:56 AM >Subject: Re: Setting up zipspeak > > >Hi. >Thanks for the advice. >I'm using windows ME so can't boot directly to dos in that version so I >have >to use a windows startup disk. >I found the config.sys that windows put on the startup disk and added >device=c:\windows\himem.sys to the area labeled common. This did help >somewhat. >Now when I start linux the braille lite speaks. But only for a few seconds. >It says a few words, but they don't seem to make up any kind of logical >sentence, like there's words missing in the middle. But it said something >about braille, speakup and the kernal. >Then the braille lite stopped speaking and froze up. I know it was the >braille lite and not the computer or linux because it wouldn't even respond >to the command to take it out of speach box mode. >Well, it seems my guess was right. The newer note takers in the series >won't >work with it. > >Oh well. >I guess I'll have to wait for software speach support. > >Thanks again. >Justin > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 4/12/2002 at 10:03 AM Pete wrote: > >>Hi >> I have windows 98 s e and I go to shutdown and restart in m s dos mode. >>I think loadlin needs himem.sys to work but am not sure so I placed a >>device=c:\windows\himem.sys >>line in the config.sys file. The config.sys file I have is empty except >>for >>the line loading himem.sys... To boot zipspeak or the umsdos slackware >>linux I used a l.bat file some thing like this: >>@echo off >>c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\linux\(kernel name) /dev/hda1 >speakup_synth=(your >>keyword for your synthasiser) >> You will need loadlin.exe the linux loader. I unzipped the loadlin >>program files to c:\loadlin, you don't need to do this except there is >>documentation explaining how to use loadlin. /dev/hda1 is the first >>partission on the first drive (C:>) if this is whear your zipspeak >>distribution is it should be fine. There are other parameters you may >need >>to specifie in the batch file I don't know about. >> Pete >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Justin Ekis" <JEkis at sbcglobal.net> >>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >>Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 3:41 AM >>Subject: Setting up zipspeak >> >> >>Hello again all, >> >>I'm back and giving linux another try. >>I tried several weeks ago but had problems. I've been busy and am now >>getting back to it. >>Ok, I've managed to get a little farther than the last time I posted. I >>have >>created a windows me boot disk and tried to start linux from there. I had >>sighted help and when i changed to the c: drive and ran linux.bat they >said >>they saw some kind of error message but it went by too fast to read. There >>was lots of text. My synth didn't say a word though. The problem is I >don't >>know if I set something up wrong or if it's my ssynth. >>The documentation says I can use the braille 'n speak or any of that line >>of >>blazie note takers for speach I believe, but I use the new braille lite >m20 >>and I think I read somewhere that the braille lite m20 and m40 use >>different >>speach technology than the earlier products so I don't know if it's >>compatible with speakup at all. Would it be possible to use software >>speach? >>I also could be setting it up wrong though. Am I supposed to put any other >>files on the startup disk other than what windows puts on there? >> >>Thanks much in advance for any help. I've had the extreme misfortune of >>running microsoft crashware, er, I mean windows, for more than 5 years and >>so now seem to lose all computer knoledge once I'm outside of it. Lol. >> >>Thanks again. >>Justin >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
