On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:41:07AM +0100, Darren Paskell wrote: > Hi. OK, try holding the ctrl key and pressing the letter 'u' to clear the line, then type "linux speakup_synth=apolo" if your apollo is not on com 1 or /dev/ttyS0 then add the port to the command line but I've usually got away with it. HTH Gena > > I have an Apollo II speech synthesizer which I want to be able to use with > Speakup. I have succeeded in getting Speakup to work with it from Slackware > 8 and 9 installation media, although I haven't used Speakup for two years or > so. I have however tested the Apollo and its com port connection > successfully under Dos and Windows. I have as yet no experience with > compiling my own kernel, although this is something I intend to rectify once > I have a working Linux system. > > I downloaded the Speakup Net-Install ISO image of Sarge from > <http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/>, and burned it to a cd. > I've tried supplying > > speakup speakup_synth=apolo > > and > > speakup26 speakup_synth=apolo > > at the CD's boot prompt, but Speakup does not seem to be able to find my > Apollo. I have verified that the installer does start after both commands. > I've also tried downloading the floppy images from the Debian boot disks > area on the Speakup ftp site. However, I still get no speech when supplying > the > > linux speakup_synth=apolo > > command at the boot floppy's prompt. > > I have tested the CD and floppy on two computers with the same Apollo > connected to the first serial port, with the same result i.e. no speech. I > would like to be able to run through a talking installation of Debian. Is > this possible, and if so what can I do to debug the problem? > > Thank you very much for any assistance you may be able to offer me. > > Darren > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ---end quoted text--- -- 2E0AXU Blindness Advocacy Self Help (BASH Online) bashonline-subscribe at yahoogroups.com Freedom & Power provided by debian GNU Linux
