-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:27:31PM EST, Marvin Rush wrote: > Have a question does speakup support a deck talk pc2?? Yes, but as far as I have found, the support is alright, but for me at least, unstable. You need to load the firmware onto the card every time you want to use it, hense why you can only build the DECtalk PC2 driver as a module, as the card cannot be made to talk from first boot. I found that the firmware loader that comes with the speakup distribution didn't work for me. I was able to get the firmware loaded onto the card by using the original DEC PC software from the disk in a DOSEmu session. Speakup then works with the card, but when cursoring around, there is a noticable delay before the DEC speaks. Screen review keys are fine however. If you cursor around too much and try and send too much data to the DEC PC too quickly, the card locks up, and makes a sort of clicking noise every second or so. You then have to perform a hard reset, as your machine is unresponsive. This is what I found anyway, so your experience may be different. There is a possibility that the hardware I am using it with is the cause of this problem, but I am not sure. Jus tfor anybody who is interested, this was with a dual Celeron 466 system, and I tried it with both a uniprocessor and multiprocessor kernel, and was with a much older version of speakup. I really should try it again to see whether the same problem is still present. - -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: themuso at themuso.com ICQ: 18444344 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFETtJcjVefwtBjIM4RAtBvAJ9tlsL8QRoQLtQsKUvA+zObXaoXTwCdEs2p 331ymhWbckLEcuRbT42CveU= =3oe5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
