I have to throw you a no on that one. I wasn't just saying that the install doesn't work, I'm saying that Speakup won't commmunicate to a synth using a USB to serial converter. It doesn't matter when you load the modules. It is a hardware problem. It has something to do with the uart and the routines that control it, and that's all I know. Equal causes can produce very unequal effects. Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Raul A. Gallegos said > 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 at pcdesk.net> > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
