I'd appreciate it if you could attempt to get the thing to work. Right now, it's all I've got to work with. At first, I thought the port on my laptop was merely a female serial port. No problem if that was the case, I could buy a male to female converter. But it's some sort of video interface. So, right now I'm sort of stuck working with a synthesizer that won't speak. Not being a skilled programmer, I can't say what should be done to fix this. Unless, by some chance, the softsynth device will work with my sound card? I highly doubt this, I don't know if it's even included in the install kernel. Thanks, Zack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 12:40 PM Subject: Re: USB Serial Devices and Speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As far as I know, speakup will not drive a synth connected via a > serial to usb converter. This is because the addresses used by usb are > different then the addresses used by standard serial ports. There is > also the fact that the uarts in serial to usb converters differ from > the standard 16550a uart in a standard serial port as far as I know. > > Since cvs speakup is now modularized, I was wondering for some time > now if it might not be possible to drive a usb to serial connected > synth, assuming that the synth driver in question was loaded as a > module after the usb system came up, and if the serial synth module > could accept i/o addresses as arguments. There would of course be the > problem of the different uarts, although I suspect that could be dealt > with in some way as well. How about it Kirk? Would this be possible to > implement? If so, then I just might play with speakup serial code, and > see what I could figure out. > > Greg > > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:33:26AM -0800, Zachary wrote: >> Hi, >> I've given up with the keypad on my desktop, and anyway my laptop has got >> a >> hard drive to spare. >> I'm wondering how Speakup will recognize a Dectalk Express connected via >> a >> USB serial adapter? My laptop doesn't have any built in serial ports, >> and >> so I have to use an adapter. >> Do I have to supply extra Kernel options to get it to boot? If not, how >> can I start speech after the Kernel has detected the USB device? >> Assuming, >> of course, that it supports it. >> Thanks, >> Zack >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> !DSPAM:41853e995316012368881! >> >> > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBhU2i7s9z/XlyUyARAnp+AJwOS9z/vrpGtSjQ6bUoS81yexNV1gCcC0Hj > hEDJYbUsLEVWi7TkNTzsdBw= > =8e1S > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
