If you have a spare PCI (or ISA) slot, a serial port or two is not an expensive investment. Gregory Nowak writes: > -----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 -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
