Cody, Speech should be set to serial. Also, it's speakup_cer=0. Your problem might be not having a null modem adapter, they're available at raido shack for about $6. Garrett On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 17:03 -0700, Cody Hurst wrote: > Hello all, > > I just realized I could whip up an external synth with a db25 > serial cable, a converter and a db9 serial cable, however when I boot > grml I use this boot command > > grml speakup_synth=bns, ttyS0 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. Thanks for any hep. > > Cody > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Visit Garrett and Whitney's blog at http://garrettk17.dyndns.org And for decent, civilized, and sometimes technical IRC chatting, check out www.the-bofh.com and irc.the-bofh.com