-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Just like any other computer, Speakup shouldn't have any real problems. My biggest concern for any computer to be used conveniently with Speakup is to have a serial port available. I say this because you can always gain access to a synth while installing Linux for the first time and in the event the sound card isn't supported. I recently installed Slackware 10.2 on a Toshiba laptop that had a serial port and my Speakout, the job went smoothly. Getting software speech took another week or two to get going because I had a devil of a time getting the kernel to be compatible with the on-board soundcard. That's one reason I feel so strongly about serial ports on a linux based computer - laptop or otherwise. I now use that same laptop with software speech (Espeak and speech dispatcher quite regular now. My Toshiba is surprisingly small in resources but still runs text based linux quite well. I only have 32 meg of RAM with a 266 MMX processor. Sometimes things seem to get swapped out and would appear to be locked up but I'm sure that pertains to the lack of resources. I just stuck an 80 GB harddrive in it and that went flawlessly! Speakup does have a laptop keymap or I should say that laptop key combos are included in the standard keymap so Speakup navigation keys are available. I redid a few of them for my tastes but is quite usable in the default form. One thing I like about my older laptop is the two PCMCIA slots so I can stick in network and/or wireless cards when I want. And it does have a single USB port though it is only 1.1. Anyway, just about anything they give you should work. I would be more concerned with general compatibility between Linux in general and hardware than I would about Speakup in particular. On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:51:20PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > It could be smartco.org may be able to provide me with a used and > refurbished laptop in exchange for some of the hours I worked at > smartco.org disassembling computers. What smartco needs to know is what > would be specs for a useable laptop as opposed to a laptop that's best not > used to run speakup-enabled Linux. I have grml here and got it installed > on a hard drive for a desktop computer last night and also have debian and > slackware 10.2 as a result of a slackware subscription. Smartco does not > want to provide me with something that isn't useable so I've been asked to > do sme research. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5HWcWSjv55S0LfERAz8dAKCCu6O+dQjDPsh5pb0bRfe6k5lP0gCfbEbi 4GagE2/gpcJo7w8Lv9tAOeQ= =UdrP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
