Hi, Try adding speakup_ser=<serial port number>. For example, if your synth is on the first port, you can do: speakup_synth=dectlk speakup_ser=0 HTH. -- Bill in Denver On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Tony Baechler wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, I'm not a programmer otherwise I would try to fix it myself. I > read something in the change log saying that a problem with a different > synth was fixed by changing the timeout delay when probing. It's > strange because I've not had this particular problem with any other > kernel, either on a boot CD, floppy, or hard disk. I can easily send a > patch to fix the init string, but all that's really necessary is to > remove the "pe -380" from the commands first sent to the unit. Maybe > changing the timeout delay would help, I don't know. Perhaps this > particular bug was introduced later in the CVS code for Speakup which > grml is using. I can try to test any fixes, but I'm not a programmer > and would rather avoid trying to compile kernels. > > Kirk Reiser wrote: >> Hello Tony: That is a bug in the Dectalk Express driver which we have >> known about for quite a while. I have been looking at it but don't >> have a Dectalk myself to test with so it isn't a very high priority. >> I do have a few other people that are also waiting for a solution so >> hopefully I'll have something to test in the not to distant future. >> I'd say by at least 2020! 'grin' Of course patches which fix the >> problem will be happily accepted. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >