I've had a series of Thinkpads running Linux with Speakup starting with a 560 back around 1998/1999. I just installed on an X31 that I bought on Ebay. Have you enabled the DB9 port as your serial A port? Many Thinkpads default to assigning the serial device to the infrared port. There are two settings you need to tweak in biox to fix this. If you have the Thinkpad DOS utilities, you can find this under the ps command (or was it the ps2 command?). Good luck and hang in there. These are great little machines, and you can expect to get Speakup working very well once you get everything lined up correctly. Alex Snow writes: > Hi all. > Has anyone successfully installed speakup on an ibm thinkpad? I've tried > slackware, debian, and tomsrtbt on my thinkpad 380ed and another older > thinkpad of unknown model (the date on the botom says 1996). Whenever I > try booting I get no speach. I've even tried giving the speakup_ser > option for ports 0 and 1 but nothing. I'm using an artic transport as > the synth. > > -- > Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the > grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin > charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what > they say if they had. > -- Linus Torvalds, announcing Linux v2.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
