I had the same problem with my Asus motherboard but I made a hole in one of the covers for a drive bay in front. So now I have a serial port on the front of my computer. It might look a little funny but it works good. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Astrope" <astrope@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:58 PM Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards >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 > >
