Hey Greg agian, Just checked forgot to comment on this but I actually just looked, and I found 2 null modem adapters serial female db9 on one end and an rj11 on the other. Found 2 of them. What would I need this for? Cody On May 19, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:03:41PM -0700, Cody Hurst wrote: >> I just realized I could whip up an external synth with a db25 serial >> cable, a converter and a db9 serial cable, > > What do you mean by "converter"? If you're talking about a usb to > serial converter, then you're out of luck, since speakup doesn't > support those as of now. If you mean some kind of other converter, > then you'd better explain. Also, do you have a null-modem adapter in > that cable chain? If you don't, and if your cables are standard > straight-through cables, then you need a null-modem adapter. > >> however when I boot grml I use >> this boot command >> >> grml speakup_synth=bns, ttyS0 > > I don't know the state of speakup in grml, if it's pre-git speakup, > then you're fine, but see below. If grml has speakup from git, you > need to specify the synth as speakup.synth=bns, assuming grml has the > bns synth built into the kernel. > > I don't know where you got the ttyS0 from; this isn't how you specify > serial ports in speakup. If the blazer is on your first serial port, > you don't need to tell speakup which port to look on. If the speakup > in grml is pre-git, then speakup will find the bns on any of the other > standard serial ports, if it isn't hooked up to the first serial > port. If the speakup in grml is from git, I seem to recall Kirk saying > that speakup from git doesn't auto-probe beyond the first serial port > anymore. If that's correct, then read up in the speakup docs how to > specify the serial port. Off the top of my head, the second serial > port would be specified with speakup from git as speakup.ser=1, but > don't quote me on that. > > and get no speech. On the blazer's speech >> config menu I set it from parallel to serial. however I tried >> starting >> grml with it on serial and parallel and still no speech. I know >> this can >> be done but I just don't know how. I'd like to know what I"m doing >> wrong >> here. > > Ok, in the blazer's speech menu, set the port to serial. In the > printer config menu, make sure the port is set to either off, or > parallel. In the serial config menu, set baud rate to 9600, bits per > character to 8, stop bits to 1, parity to none, and handshake to > either software , or hardware. I've found that pre-git speakup at > least acted quirky with the bns regardless of what handshaking is set > to, though Kirk has said in the past that handshaking with the bns > driver should be set to hardware. I haven't tested to see how speakup > from git does with the bns. Finally, make sure the blazer is > online. Hth. > > 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIMfQP7s9z/XlyUyARAqZ1AKCTe+/i9ZDOyiZ6R46tlOOGQXSrKQCgtk1t > WwrzDlFsYGQXw1SBxSoLEgI= > =KX2N > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
