-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ah...What you have there is a VGA connector. Used to output stuff to an external CRT monitor from the laptop. On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:13:59PM -0800, Zachary wrote: > 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 at romuald.net.eu.org> > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- "The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42." -- Douglas Adams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBhXk9Nohoaf1zXJMRAuL2AJ9PkKfwJDflUpQPdSfk1sfly+QiuwCfTkan P+WZJrlCRJJqM44R+rVkUzY= =RX2O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
