Hi, Firstly a greeting to all on the list from a newcomer. My name is Garry Turkington and though I'm new to Speakup I've been using and developing on Linux since about 1995 or so. In that time I've used a DOS screen reader and accessed a Linux box as a dumb serial console. However, having to keep my main desktop as an eternal dual boot finally frustrated me enough to want to do something about native access to Linux. Which implies I really should know enough to get Speakup working! Despite this though I've a few questions which hopefully someone can clear up for me. As I've already got a number of established RedHat or Fedora installs I just want to add Speakup to one or more of these, not do a fresh install from the modified Shrike ISOs on the website. Apart from the -spk2 kernel packages are there any other differences between these disks and the stock RH 9? WWhen looking to build Speakup into a kernel tree I firstly did some poking around the RH/Fedora kernel config files and noticed that the Speakup definitions are in there but never used. Memory also seems to suggest that at one point, (maybe around RH 7.3 or 8?) that Speakup was fully built into the 'out of the box' kernel? Any pointers to the history here and what's going on? Finally, to bootstrap things I installed the latest -spk2 kernel from the Shrike ISOs into a running RH9 system and then tried a "modprobe speakup_decext" to use my Dectalk Express. I think though that Speakup is trying to grab /dev/ttyS0, which is my current serial console and things get a bit messed up from that point. Losing the serial console also makes it hard to debug. /dev/ttyS1 should be properly set up, does the speakup module take parameters to tell it which serial port to use? Many thanks for any info/help, Garry -- Garry Turkington garry.turkington at acm.org
