He's telling you to pass that as a parameter to the kernel I believe. As he's speaking about the boot loader. That would probably be better... Have you tried it this way? ~~TheCreator~~ website: http://tysplace.shaned.net msn: compgeek134 at hotmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 moo coder/wizard and administrator ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:58 PM Subject: Re: telling speakup to use ttyS1 > Is this in answer to my question about setting speakup to use ttyS1 at > the command line? I'm not sure because the subject line is similar but > not the same. I specifically was asking if it can be set at the command > line because setting the speakup parameters in the bootloader config > hangs my system. > > Although, maybe you're saying I cant set speakup_ser via a boot > parameter, leave out speakup_synth, and then later initialize the synth > at the command line. Is that what you're saying? > > I tried it. It didn't work. Although, maybe it is supposed to work and > my computer is messed up. > > > > Joshua Lambert said the following on 7/24/2006 3:43 PM: > > In your boot loader, you need to pass the location of your serial port to > > speakup if you explicitly want ttyS1. > > speakup_ser=ttyS1 > > Would do it from the get go. > > You will have to read the docs for your boot loader to figure out how to > > pass parameters to the kernel command line. > > hth > > Josh > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > -- > John Heim > 263-4189 / jheim at math.wisc.edu / http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
