Hi gregg, that is terrific! we will give it a try. And yes, that is the correct code for the dec talk express. I got the speakup manual while looking through the on line debian installer information. Much appreciated, Karen On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ok, the debian installer itself could care less where your dectalk > express is, or if you even have one. All of that is taken care of by > speakup, which is loaded for you based on parameters you supply when > you get the beep, and you're at the boot prompt. > > I don't know if the procedure for starting speakup with a hardware > synth is the same in wheezy as it is in squeeze, so what I'm about to > tell you applies to squeeze, but may not apply to boot from media which > is intended for wheesy. I'll just go ahead and state here what you > need to do to boot with a hardware synth using speakup in squeeze, > since the info is spread out over a couple sections of the install > manual, and requires more than 1 read to fully figure it out. > > 1. Power up the system with the boot media in the drive, and wait for > the beep (you should get one if your system has a pc speaker, which > it likely does as I said before). > > 2. Once you get the beep, arrow down once to choose graphical install. > > 3. Hit your tab key, hit the space bar, and type > > speakup.synth=xxx > > , and hit enter. > > The xxx is speakup's name for your synthesizer. So, for a dectalk > express, I believe you'd type > > speakup.synth=dectlk > > , but don't quote me on that. If all went well, you should get speech > from your synth 30-45 seconds after pressing enter, if not > earlier. HTH. > > Greg > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:07:14PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Hi again, >> Sorry very busy past day or two. I am likely given your idea >> waiting too long then. I plan trying again tomorrow, perhaps based >> on your answer. >> for the record, as the discussion in the other associated threads >> demonstrates, I am not actually wanting to install wheezy at all. >> I have DVD images of squeeze. however as I cannot boot from DVD, >> and the cd image comes with a way to install the system on my own, >> my goal was to follow Samuel's steps for installing squeeze instead >> once I reached the mirror archive question. He already gave mt to >> understand that debian will not care where the install data is >> coming from. >> Your confirmation that it will just skip the network install option >> confirms this too. I will have to set up one manually later. >> I agree a thousand percent with just using my dectalk express. >> How can this be done without sighted assistants? >> I recall from the install manual that one uses the graphical >> installer, but again if debian does not know until later in the >> install process where the dectalk is, what is done up to that point? >> Thanks again for your wisdom, >> Karen > > > - -- > 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 v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk+aP+EACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBCZgCfVsIQ+ECdn1GwcMYCyzjAiz5n > U0EAnjWhcBCYJk5fRi12Inzi12Rc+2p5 > =yPMa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
