You have to install a firmware if your current firmware isn't the correct version. When you turn on your decktalk, it says version number. ----- Original Message ----- From: <jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:47 PM Subject: Re: at a loss > 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 at pacbell.net> > 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 at braille.uwo.ca > [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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
