Hi Travis. I'm using slackware 11.0 with the provided speakup.s kernel. However, I'm using it with the internal doubletalk. So I know that at least speakup works in that kernel, not sure about the transport driver though. Darcy On 13-Dec-06, at 7:13 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: > The serial port works just fine, because I can use my transtype in > terminal mode, and talk to the linux box just fine via the serial > port, it's only the speakup that doesn't behave properly. > > When speakup failed to work, I activated the serial port (com1) and > then was able to use terminal mode to login to the linux shell. > So, yes, the serial port works, and yes, it's ttys0, and no, no matter > what I do, speakup doesn't speak via the transport driver. > I've used speakup before with transtypes, transports, and even the > stand-alone device Artic had called the spirit. They all worked just > fine. However, with this setup, I can't get the transport driver to > do anything at all. > I'm thinking perhaps I'll recompile the kernel, and try again, in case > it's the provided speakup.s that's a problem, unless someone else can > confirm the speakup kernel works properly with this release. > On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:57 PM, randy turner wrote: > >> >> i had a simular problem with my old litetalk but it would start >> speaking >> after a minute of waiting. >> just to see if it will work you might want to try the bns driver >> how old is your transport? >> can you get it to work in just plane dos? >> you might have someone run the command dmesg >> to see if linux shows to have a com1 port >> if it does it will showup as ttyS0 >> com2 showsup as ttyS1 >> another question is, do you have to load >> anything before speakup before the transport will work? >> i don't have a transport so i am assuming that it is just like a >> doubletalk >> as far as what to load first. >> i have read the speakup doc and it appears that it should work >> if you have a standard serial port built on to the mother board >> things should work out ok >> it might not work out if you are using a pci serial card. >> so next step is to tell me if you have a device ttyS0 >> and we can go from there. >> randy turner >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
