Hi, Thanks for all the help. Can someone tell me if this will work: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/IBM-INTEL-2-0G-256MB-13GB-CDROM-17inCRT-KB-MOUSE_W0QQitemZ190146837530QQihZ009QQcategoryZ111448QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Also the guy said the following about the soundcard. "Its a sound MAX ADI sound card, go to the ibm website and enter 6790-2GA in the search field. YOu will find all the info on the system. I had a quick look but couldn't find any ref to linux drivers. " I looked at the website Doug said but I couldn't find it. Could someone please have another look for me because I am sure I have missed something. Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton John Heim wrote: > Most distros (fedora, debian, etc) will configure your sound card when you > install linux. In fact, if you swap out the sound card, sound should be > automatically be reconfigured. If it doesn't work, get back to us and we'll > help you. > > The answer to your second question depends on which distro you are using. If > you are using debian or grml, you can use the simple instructions on my web > site for setting up software speech. See: > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/#sftsynth > > There are more complete instructions here: > http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd-up/speechd-up_1.html > > The second page explains how to download and compile speechd-up. But I have > created a debian deb file that you can use if you have installed debian. > That makes it a lot easier to get software speech working. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Dalton" <daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:51 AM > Subject: Re: getting started with linux > > > >> Hi, >> Just a couple more questions: >> How do I setup the soundcard so I here sound through it once I have >> installed linux? >> Also will I have to download a linux distribution and install that. Then >> install speakup? When speakup is working can I get it to talk through my >> speakers? If so what synth would it use. Like jaws can talk through my >> speakers can speakup do this or do I need a hardware synth? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Daniel Dalton >> >> >> John Heim wrote: >> >>> If you miss out on that machine, and need to bid on another one, if I >>> were >>> you, I wouldn't worry too much about it not being compatible with linux. >>> Any >>> PC that is a year old or older is probably going to work. It's mostly >>> very >>> new hardware that isn't supported -- yet. >>> >>> I guess it would be a huge bummer to get a machine and have it turn out >>> to >>> be one of the very few that is not supported. But you're probably more >>> likely to get a defective machine off ebay than you are to get one that >>> has >>> an unsupported sound card. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Daniel Dalton" <daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com> >>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:11 AM >>> Subject: Re: getting started with linux >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Thanks for all the help. I got a reply from the guy that was selling >>>> that pc I was looking at. He said the following: >>>> "it is intel 815 chipset has agp slot and intel onboard sound drives at >>>> google search " dell support" xp has drivers" >>>> >>>> So is this going to work with linux and speakup? >>>> I don't know much about this so I don't think I will be able to find it >>>> on the site with the supported cards. >>>> >>>> Anyway if anyone can get back to me I would greatly appreciate it. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Daniel Dalton >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
