Speakup Boot Diskss for Debian Sarge

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Hi

Well I've just got my apollo out and tried it out.

I'm using a new 2.6 kernel patched with cvs speakup.  However, it occurred to me that the name had been changed thus I wonder if you've tried apollo with one 'l' and two 'll', this version needs "apollo" echoing to the /proc/speakup/synth_name file.

HTH

Gena
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:38:28PM +0100, Darren Paskell wrote:
> Georgina Joyce kindly suggested the following:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Good point, I forgot about that. Unfortunately, still no go. I did however 
> try to activate Speakup's Braille/n/Speak support with the 
> "speakup_synth=bns" parameter and no serial device designation, and got it 
> talking. So, Speakup is indeed compiled into the Kernel of the CD and floppy 
> I have, but the Apollo support seems to be malfunctioning. Is there anyway I 
> might be able to debug this? I have a copy of the Apollo II command set 
> manual in ASCII around somewhere with the synth codes for speech parameters 
> for rate, pitch and the like if it would be of use. In the meantime, I might 
> just go ahead with the bns option until I can get it installed.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Darren 
> 
> 
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