If I recall, your original question was why did the apollo synth work for installation but not once the system was up and running, right? I think that may be because the stock debian kernel has a bug that causes serial synths to fail. For some reason, they fixed it in the installer but not for the stock kernels. On 12/11/13 13:22, Pawel Loba wrote: > Hi, > I downloaded my image from Debian's site by clicking on Download Debian 7.2 > (32/64-bit PC Network installer) link. There is an installation menu > available allowing you to choose between 32 & 64-bit installation. You can > press the tab key to move to boot prompt where you can input your > parameters. I am doing my installation using a Braille display and > activating speakup at first boot up. > Best, > Pawel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Scott > D. Henning > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:43 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: Debian installation with a hardware synth for speakup > > Hi, > > Your input line has typo perhaps. In the documentation for speakup apollo is > spelled with a lower case first letter a. Your line, as typed in the email, > uses a capital lett a in apollo. > > I have just finished installing Debian 7 with speech from their site using > the "small cd". It does not come up to a boot prompt where you can type what > you want. Are you using the "small cd" from Debian? Or perhaps something > different. > > Scott > On 12/11/2013 7:01 AM, Pawel Loba wrote: >> I meant speakup.synth=Apollo speakup.ser=1 I couldn't succeed with >> Dectalk external neither. >> I suspect I Need to find some newer documentation regarding changes in >> speakup since older statements obviously don't work. >> Pawel. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of >> Pawel Loba >> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:56 AM >> To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' >> Subject: RE: Debian installation with a hardware synth for speakup >> >> Thanks for your suggestion but this mistake was corrected some time ago. >> Anyway, speakup.synth=Apollo speaku.ser=1 statement at Debian's boot >> line doesn't work. >> Best, >> Pawel. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of >> Georgina Joyce >> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:48 AM >> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >> Subject: Re: Debian installation with a hardware synth for speakup >> >> Hello, >> >> At one time I'm sure the apollo module was spelt apolo. Just one letter > 'l'. >> >> HTH >> >> Gena >> On 10 Dec 2013, at 11:12, Pawel Loba <pawel at velcom.ca> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> By specifying speakup.synth=dtlk at Debian Squeeze installation line >>> I got my system talking via my external DoubleTalk synthesizer at the >>> first run after the installation process. >>> I tried to do the same on my friend's system who is using Apollo >>> synthesizer by putting speakup.synth=Apollo at the installation line >>> but with no luck this time. >>> This is probably very trivial question for all of you gurus out there >>> but perhaps someone would give me some suggestion how I can fix this >>> and make speakup talking via Apollo synth, please. >>> Thanks a lot. >>> Pawel. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> > > > -- > Scott D. Henning > Architectural Audio Design > PO Box 1372 > Durango, Colorado 81302 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
