On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Hi Shaun. > You've probably already done this, but what happens when you try echoing a > string to the serial port with the doubletalk lot turned on? > echo hello > /dev/ttyS0 > or whatever your serial port is. > > > *SNIP* well, echo "hello" >/dev/ttyS1 does exactly what I'd expect it to do. the lt speaks the word hello. why speakup failed to detect is it beyond me. I've done a dmesg and speakup comes up fine byt the litetalk fails the probe. and echoing a ctrl_a with a question mark directly to the synth doesn't yeald anything. I'm probably doing that wrong in any case. lol. -- Shaun Oliver "Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!" EMAIL: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: blindman_2001 at hotmail.com AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun