Looks like I'm going to weight and hope the keynote gold synth comes out with a driver. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Adam Myrow Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:26 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Dectalk isa model I have had pretty bad luck with the Dectalk PC2 card that I have. I can get it to work some of the time with the CVS speakup. If I have already loaded the drivers from Windows, it will come up talking. Otherwise, it fails to load the drivers on cold boot, and requires another cold boot before Windows can load the drivers again. From a cold boot, the command "dtload -v" gives the output: waitmode p=c001 s = 1000 status -9 testkernel got dec Loading kernel of 25386 bytes ( 69 relocs ) cs:ip == 0040:0010 ss:sp == 07b3:0200 card is ready dt_loadmem: addr = 00000400 size = 25386 Any attempt to load Speakup's Dectalk PC module at this point locks up the computer. Even when I can get it speaking, it causes the clock in Linux to start losing time at an alarming rate. This seems to be some sort of interrupt issue. For example, if I start playing a sound file or streaming audio, I can make the sound skip just by pressing keypad enter regardless of whether the Dectalk PC is speaking or not. I've tried changing the IO address of the Dectalk PC, but that made no difference. I posted about some of my problems, especially the clock problem, on this list, and nobody else seemed to be having them. The only problem universally recognized is that the Dectalk doesn't say words with apostrophes correctly under Speakup. I attempted to contact the developer of the Dectalk PC driver, but my email bounced. I've pretty much concluded that the Dectalk PC driver isn't ready for production use. If you can get your hands on an old Double Talk or Accent PC, you'll have better luck. On the other hand, maybe mine is an isolated case. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
