Hi folks, I have just discovered the System Rescue CD and thought it could be significantly better than my current system backup solution, DOS with DOS screen reader, external synth and command-line Ghost. I'm having some trouble getting speakup to start yabbering to me. Here's what I've done. I downloaded an iso of the System Rescue CD Version 1.02 and burnt it to a CD. I've attached an Artic Transport to Com1 on my notebook. The notebook BIOS is configured to boot from CD before hard disk and the rescue CD does seem to be booting. When the disk stops spinning, I type rescuecd speakup_synth=txprt and belt the enter key, at which point the CD spins up again and continues loading. It seems to stop at some point and pause, but eventually spins up again and exhibits head movement. At some point during this process the Artic utters something that sounds like "at" but that's the only thing I ever hear from it. It does this every time for both 9600,n,8,1 and 9600,n,7,1 serial port parameters. I have looked through the Rescue CD manual and googled around the place for info on getting speakup going with System Rescue CD, but there appears to be no definitive step-by-step idiotproof guide for the first time blind user. either that or I just didn't put the right magic string into google. I did however find enough information which enabled me to construct the above option string to give to the boot loader. So, I figured I'd try my luck here and see if anyone can give me a bit of guidance or can tell me where I'm going wrong. It could be something as simple as me not actually entering the line at the prompt. I am only guessing that when the boot loader comes up that I am being prompted for boot options and that I can type straight away. Perhaps I need to perform some other sequence of keystrokes first before I can type at the prompt? (I have read that this is the case with the Fidora installer). Or perhaps there's something else I'm not aware I need to be including in the command line in order for Speakup to work correctly. Btw, The Artic Transport is working properly as I can get JAWS to talk to it under windows XP. Also, although I have tried 7 data bits, I'm assuming that Speakup expects the Artic to be using its default serial parameters of 9600,n,8,1 when you select txprt as the Speakup synth. Any help would be muchly appreciated. Cheers, Andrew. P.S. I'm aware that, depending on the answer to my problem, this thread could be OT for this list, but I'm hoping that since the real issue is getting Speakup to start giving speech feedback, my potential transgression will be looked upon with leaniency.
