I'm in the process of compiling the apolo c code. It says that its going to
take a *while*
----- Original Message -----
From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" <wacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: important, need to get software synth running
> What fun, not! When Janina mentioned the traditionally bad spelling of
> Apollo in Speakup, I remembered that Kirk had just fixed that in the last
> few days. So, I thought I'd check to see how it was spelled in the RPMS.
> It isn't spelled either way because it isn't there! Sorry, Krister and
> Darragh. I'll investigate and get back to the list.
> --
>
>
> Bill in Denver
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > Did you rsync? If so, you have the kernels with speakup included and
> > need to turn on almost with the command you sho, but not quite.
> >
> > If you did not rsync, you need to download the kernel from the ftp site
> > appropriate to your cpu. and install it with rpm.
> >
> > Since you're using an Apollo, your command is:
> >
> > modprobe speakup_apolo
> >
> > and nothing else. Note the bad spelling of "apolo."
> >
> > To install the Speakup kernel you need to:
> >
> > rpm -Uv [kernel.name]
> >
> > Please note that all these examples with brackets/braces [kernel.name],
> > or {speakup_synth} are tokens. You don't type [speakup_synth], you
> > substitute the appropriate synth identifier as understood by the code
> > Speakup inserts in the kernel. Get that wrong, and you certainly will
> > not have speech.
> >
> > So, for the Doubletalk internal it becomes:
> >
> > modprobe speakup_dtlk
> >
> > And for your Apollo it is as I gave it above, with the bad spelling and
> > all.
> >
> > Darragh writes:
> > > From: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com>
> > >
> > > Hello. I have fedora installed but speakup isn't speaking. I think
its
> > > because of this apolo but am not sure.
> > >
> > > I think I'm doomed. when I use the lines
> > > setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
> > > modprobe speakup_{synth_keyword}
> > > it tells me that modprobe has failed.
> > >
> > > can I stress enough that I'm really anxious to get this working? I
think
> > > the line for speakup is in grub somewhere. can I find out where that
is?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Darragh
> > >
> > >
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> > --
> >
> > Janina Sajka
> > Email: janina at rednote.net
> > Phone: (202) 408-8175
> >
> > Director, Technology Research and Development
> > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > http://www.afb.org
> >
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