hi Greg, nope not getting any speech at all. and because i can't get linux installed on this computer i can't run the dmesg or the lspci command. i might just have to buy a computer with a serial port allready installed. thanks for the support anyway. randy turner On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 07:16:51PM -0600, randy turner wrote: >> my question is does speakup.s >> support a pci serial card in the speakup.s kernel? >> > > I don't know, but again, I don't see why it shouldn't. > >> i have tried the install disk and the slackware cd >> with the cd i type speakup.s speakup_synth=ltlk >> when i install from the floppy i type >> ramdisk speakup_synth=ltlk > > What happens when you do that? Your message implies that you get no > speech, but you don't actually state this explicitly. > >> my question is does speakup.s need another pci serial driver for this to >> work? >> >> they say that it should work in linux > > I don't know, but I don't see why it should. > >> have you used other pci serial cards??> if so what does the kernel need to support them? >> > > The only pci serial card I've used is an actual modern hardware > modem. In the earlier kernels, it needed serial irq sharing enabled, the > many ports option enabled and it showed up as /dev/ttyS4. From what I > can recall, it still does need those options in the kernel, but now > shows up as /dev/ttyS1 in a system with only one on-board serial > port. It might be > possible that your card is showing up as something higher then > /dev/ttyS3, in which case, speakup won't talk to it, unless you modify > the speakup code. > > Until I know what dmesg says about your serial configuration, if > anything, I'm not sure what else I can tell you. Sorry I can't be of > much help, maybe someone else would be able to tell you more. > > Greg > > > > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFV+2Z7s9z/XlyUyARAlcLAKCCc4djVhpIonfsX4iAhvPx0JHDkgCcDScj > euoWiTRnjf+fBedo8lse7AQ= > =yAgV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
