Hi. That might be your problem. that line isn't right. Here's the one I used with my slackware install but it might work on debian: Note that you should replace the acntpc with dectlk ramdisk speakup_synth=acntpc -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Luke Davis wrote: > Good Evening: > > I should have known: nothing is ever as easy as you think it will be. > > I made the boot disks for a talking Debian Woody install. > > After a lot of reading of the Debian docs (there is very nearly nothing in > the way of speakup docs on the subject) for installations, I figured out > that you have to boot from the non-aptly-named "rescue floppy". > > (Note that I plan to write a how-to on all of this, once I figure out how > to do it.) > > 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. > > Anyway, I type "linux dectlk", press enter, and a lot of disk activity > begins, sounding much like a kernel boot process. No speech yet. > > After this all stops, what vision I have, tells me that there is a lot of > text on screen. I wait a while, then pull the "rescue" disk, and insert > the root disk. > > I pressed enter, and nothing at all seemed to happen. > I did so again, and after receiving no action of any sort, I rebooted, and > am here contacting you all. > > Does anyone have any idea how I am supposed to get a DECTalk talking, with > a Debian -> Speakup install? > > So much for getting it done tonight, I suppose. > > Thanks in advance. > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
