Hi their. I have a latter Dectalk Express unit and as part of its power on procedures, it does indeed do a test to verify the status of all onboard components. This does include a checksum test of its firmware. I'm a bit confused as to what you're asking though. have you gotten units which are dead on arrival? --Erik On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:03:56 -0400 (EDT) > From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Subject: ot: dec-express? > > Hi all, > does anyone know if the later dec-express units no longer have the self test > built in? > I have gotten a couple from those who say they were working, only to find that > this factor is missing. > it happens too often for all of these folks to be wrong, but usually they were > running them in windows only, which might have made a difference, or with > products that might have bypassed the DEC-talk driver stuff for whatever > reason? > Thanks, > Karen > > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Alex Snow wrote: > > > What I usually do is push the all option, then go through the list of > > packages and set the stuff I don't want to uninstall. > > On Thu, Oct 02, > > 2008 at 12:19:42PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:15:47PM -0500, Jerry Matheny wrote: > > > > I use Cygwin just fine in Windows with speech. You just use your screen > > > > reader's virtual mouse keys to move to the all item and to the left of > > > > it > > > > there's a graphic that you click and it will change all the packages > > > > status to install. Then just go to next button and off it will go. > > > > > > Ok, but that assumes you want to install all the packages. > > > > > > 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 v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjlHs0ACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCvsgCg4ClOuMV11hGBWwOO7tJU4X7O > > > T4AAoI/+0KcubpZdVA3q8Av4Zi18tN5t > > > =wtjx > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a > > threaded news reader. > > -- unknown source > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > eheil at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
