Hi. I am not aware that you had to install a firmware for your synth. I'll give it a try. Cheers! ----- Original Message ----- From: "jim grimsby" <jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:05 AM Subject: RE: at a loss One more note what is the fermware of the dectalk express. It should be 4.2b or later. There were problems with some of the earlier fermwares of the dectalk express. You can get the latest fermware for your dectalk express from the gw micro home page at http://www.gwmicro.com Also you note that you are using the express with other screen readers. It is always a good idea while probing for a synthesizer to reset the synthesizer so it is set to the defaults. Hth -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:56 PM To: jaffar at jeffstudio.net; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: at a loss Let's review a bit, if you don't mind. Pardon if you've mentioned this already: 1.) Where did you get FC3? 2.) Do the best of your ability, you have verified you have good installation media? Date/time stamps all match, byte size, etc. I understand you can't run rsync. 3.) Have you tried booting without the speakup_ser part of the command? 4.) Do you know for a fact your bios allows booting from cd rom? That this feature is, in fact, enabled? jaffar at jeffstudio.net writes: > Hi Friends. It seems to me that my ambition to install and learn the > ins and outs of the linux OS has all but failed. I have copied the installation howto into braille to the letter as ready reference, done all that is required of me at the preparation stage, even did almost nothing else but tried to get FC3 installed for the past 2 days, but nothing seems to work. I can't even get past the first stage of text installation simply because speakup refuses to talk to my Dectalk express. I cannot say if my dectalk express is the source of the problem because it works very well with Wineyes and jaws even. I am totally stuck now and don't know what else I can do. Unless someone who has installed linux with the dectalk express synth is willing to help me, i'll have to shelf the idea of installing linux, at least for the foreseeable future. Cheers! Content-Description: "AVG certification" > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.3 - Release Date: 5/3/2005 > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.3 - Release Date: 5/3/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.3 - Release Date: 5/3/2005
