-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Luke Davis wrote: <snip> > I thus booted the rescue floppy. At the point where nothing was > happening, and I thus assumed I was at the expected "boot:" prompt, I > typed "linux dectlk". As best as I could tell from Debian: the default > kernel was "linux". From the only speakup doc I found that discussed > setting the speech output device, all I could determine was that you had > to give the kernel a boot parameter, specifying the speech device, and > that for the DEC Express, it was "dectlk". Nothing about specifying a > port, or anything of that sort, so I guess there is a probe system. Ok, yes, you are correct to asume that it can auto-detect, in most cases, where the synthesiser is. However, I think I know what your problem is. You missed a bit in your typing, what you should have typed at the prompt was: linux speakup_synth=dectlk Hopefully you should find that that works fine. Kind regards. - -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE+QhzrKl9qIwuqk+IRApYqAKC9SvBStq2hCRM/mdEl2CmsZzwGIACdHgMf EOawXy2xlD/kSdL82IZeJHg= =5jf0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
