Lower the priority at boot time to see all of the questions. Do this by appending debconf/priority=low when you first boot so hit tab and add that in. Regards, Kerry. On 19/05/2012 4:04 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > That really does not matter, since it found the synthesizer on com 1. > The impression I drew from our earlier exchange was that speekup would > simply look for my dectalk...period. not that I had to specify where it > was located. > That is secondary to my installing debian at all at this point, the > greater question. > > Karen > > On Fri, 18 May 2012, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 03:12:33PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>> I must have a com 2 >>> conflict with my machine's cereal port because at first speekup did >>> not find the dectalk, when I moved it to com 1 though it installed. >>> again I did not play with it much due to my next problem. >> >> I'm guessing you didn't tell speakup to look for your dectalk on the >> second serial port. If that's correct, then there's no conflict, >> speakup simply tried to access your dectalk on the first serial port >> which is the default, and of course couldn't, since the dectalk wasn't >> there to be found. If you want to have speakup access your dectalk on >> the second serial port, you need to append speakup.ser=1 as a >> boot parameter after you specify speakup.synth=xxx. HTH. >> >> 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 v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAk+2ooMACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDcZACePFNmUJHr5witLCl4Z9qlXLyT >> ZckAn1dMcPmQfJbg+QKksLZtKc7Cl1el >> =GURb >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> 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