yeah it might be disabled. you'll have to look around the bios. no the onboard stuff won't cause problems in most cases. I have a few machines here with onboard sound and stuff and they work ok. you can always (?) disable onboard sound and video. On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:20:41PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote: > OK, it looks like the port might be disabled. The copy command came back > with 1 file copied, but there was no output. > is it possible that the port is physically disabled? Also, do the embedded > video and sound cards pose a conflict problem, especially if I want to use > my own cards? > -- Rob > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 7:33 PM > Subject: Re: can't find serial port > > > > >From your Windows command prompt, can you: > > > > copy c:\autoexec.bat com1 > > > > If you hear anything from your synth, you'll know your device is > > working. > > > > It's possible that the port is bad, of course. It's also possible that > > it's disabled in bios. That would probably mean getting someone sighted > > to go through the bios with you. > > > > Kyrath writes: > > > From: "Kyrath" <kyrath at cox.net> > > > > > > Hi, > > > I've got an old Gateway P2 266 that currently has win98 on it. > > > It, unfortunately, has embedded video and sound cards. However, I'm not > sure that would be the cause of my problems with finding the serial port. > > > I've tried to redirect output via null modem cable and tried to get it > to use the external double talk, but nothing happens. > > > It will boot into windows, and it does access the floppy, just once, > when I type "console=ttyS0" or "speakup_synth=ltlk", but no joy. > > > I even tried having it look for serial port 2. > > > Does anyone have any ideas of what's going on or what else I can try? > > > -- Rob > > > -- Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka > > Email: janina at rednote.net > > Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 > > > > Director, Technology Research and Development > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > http://www.afb.org > > > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group > > Free Standards Group > > http://a11y.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
