I have Supermicro boards in my systems, and they both have serial ports, actually they have two headers. You do need a cable and it takes up an I/O slot in the back, but so what. Trevor Astrope <astrope at tabbweb.com> wrote: > I bought an Asus board last June that had the header, but I had to get > a custom cable built, as it was too far away for the standard cable. > > I also have a pcie card that won't work with speakup. It boots with > the same irq and i/o address each time, which is not irq3 or 4. I > tried changing the irq and i/o address in the speakup code, but > speakup still won't work. > > I'm just curious, do the active developers use software speech? If so, > this might explain why this issue isn't getting much attention. > > Trevor > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Michael Whapples wrote: > > > Yes I agree this really is an issue. For some odd reason the Asus > > system board I have recently bought seems to have the serial port > > controller built in (Windows shows a serial port device in device > > manager for COM1) but Asus didn't feel the need to either provide > > the actual port or the pin header so I could connect a port to the > > header should I need it. > > > > OK there are a few boards still built with serial ports, but this > > limits the choice and so if you want certain features you may just > > have to choose a system with no serial port. So having support for a > > serial adapter (either USB or PCI/PCIE) would be very useful. > > > > Michael Whapples > > -----Original Message----- From: D. Curtis Willoughby > > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:26 AM > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards > > > > This is getting to be a big problem! > > > > I have a new computer without a serial port. To use a hardware > > synthasizer like a Doubletalk LT I must use a USB to serial > > adapter or a PCI-E card. This computer does not have PCI slot(s). > > If this combination of "cannot do" restrictions is not fixed, > > serial hardware synthesizers are doomed to become obsolete. > > > > I guess there are a few USB synthesizers, and software speach is > > still well not wonderful. I have not been able to establish > > whether the few PCI-E cards can manage IRQs and I/O addresses > > so they are treated like internal serial ports, but I suspect > > they cannot. Is it not possible to modify speakup so that it > > can use any serial port on the machine, rather than just ttyS0 > > and ttyS1? Would you developers please look at a solution for > > this one? Please! > > > > D. Curtis Willoughby > > > >> From speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca Mon Jan 23 21:57:14 2012 > >> Envelope-to: postman at localhost > >> Delivery-date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:57:14 -0700 > >> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on > >> new-mail2.hypermall.com > >> X-Spam-Level: > >> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled > >> version=3.2.1 > >> X-Original-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> From: acollins at icsmail.net > >> Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards > >> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2 > >> X-BeenThere: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 > >> List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > >> <speakup.braille.uwo.ca> > >> List-Unsubscribe: <http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/options/speakup>, > >> <mailto:speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca?subject=unsubscribe> > >> List-Archive: <http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup> > >> List-Post: <mailto:speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > >> List-Help: <mailto:speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca?subject=help> > >> List-Subscribe: <http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup>, > >> <mailto:speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca?subject=subscribe> > >> MIME-Version: 1.0 > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> > >> Nope, Speakup in now way supports pci serial cards. > >> > >> >Hello, > >> >I know that speakup cannot work with synths connected through a > >> USB to >serial > >> adapter, however I would like to confirm whether speakup can use > >> serial ports p > >> rovided by a PCI-express or PCI serial adapter card? I am most > >> interested in th > >> e PCI-Express adapter cards. > >> > > >> >Michael Whapples > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >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 > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
