That is what I was afraid of. I can probably install Linux just fine with minimal sighted assistance since I know the prompts for FC3 and for Slackware 10.1 very well. I will probably go ahead with FC3 since that is my latest distro to learn adding to Slack and Debian knowledge. What I wonder then, is if once the laptop is booted and running, if I could run speakup modules for speak-out after the USB to serial is connected. I know software speech is nice but I still love my good old trusty hardware synthesizer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:06 PM Subject: Re: usb ports only on laptop > Hi, > You can't use a USB to serial converter to use a serial synthesizer with > Speakup. It has something to do with the hardware. I don't really > understand the exact problem myself, you'd have to ask Kurk. All I know > is that it doesn't work. If you are running Linux on a laptop with no > serial ports, the only option you have is software speech. > > Equal causes can produce very unequal effects. > Joseph C. Lininger > jbahm at pcdesk.net > Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > > And so it came to pass that on Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Raul A. Gallegos said > >> Hi. I have a laptop which has zero serial ports. If I purchase a USB > to >> serial converter and connect a speak-out to it will this be active >> immediately so that I can use the speak-up to install Linux with > speech? Or >> does the USB to serial get configured after boot up meaning I would > not have >> access to the serial port right away? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
