Hi. My dactalk said nothing. Apart from 3 or 4 garbled words which was beyond me, it said absolutely nothing after that. Cheers! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:58 AM Subject: Re: at a loss > Going back to this orriginal thread, When your decktalk stops speaking, or > you > tell it to shutup,what does speakup say when you hit the read current line > key? > The bootup process will say a lot of what may seem to be useless > information. > Have you tried specifying the speakup and text parameters but not the > specific > serial port? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > To: <jaffar at jeffstudio.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for > Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:30 PM > Subject: Re: at a loss > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Just because you can't get fedora installed, doesn't mean you should >> give up on installing gnu/linux. After all, fedora is not the only >> gnu/linux distribution out there. There are also: >> >> slackware: <http://www.slackware.com/>, >> >> debian: <http://www.debian.org/>, >> >> gentoo: <http://www.gentoo.org/> >> >> just to name a few. The best thing of course would be if a fedora user >> was able to help you solve your problems, and get up and >> running. However, if that doesn't happen, look at other distributions >> before deciding to quit on gnu/linux. The good news is that there are >> slackware, debian, and gentoo users on here as well. >> >> Greg >> >> >> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:38:50PM +0800, jaffar at jeffstudio.net wrote: >> > 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! >> > >> > !DSPAM:427a759187721481621118! >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> > !DSPAM:427a759187721481621118! >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Speakup mailing list >> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >> > >> > !DSPAM:427a759187721481621118! >> >> >> - -- >> web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org >> gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc >> skype: gregn1 >> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >> >> - -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFCeoJ87s9z/XlyUyARAtq9AKCPRcco0vnsY8oRQgBp961dDTfTjwCg0eWz >> 9AaUG8ixkhJz1lqc50LyGqQ= >> =kdyr >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
