I don't know about "most mainboards," but none of those I have looked at in the flesh over the past 12-months or so have had any serial connections at all. -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of covici at ccs.covici.com Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:40 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Slack 13.37 and 14.0 Most motherboards have the serial headers, just not brought out to the back. Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote: > No, you're still not understanding. Debian Wheezy has the 3.2 kernel, > so no serial support. That's why I suggested installing Squeeze and > upgrading to Wheezy. That way you can run the 2.6.32 kernel with > newer packages and still have serial support. No, you won't get most > boot messages with software speech because it takes a while for sound > drivers to load. I have both kernels installed here so I can get > hardware speech if my system becomes unbootable. I had no problem > finding a motherboard with a serial port last August. You have to > look for server motherboards, but they're not that hard to find. > > On 5/15/2013 7:15 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote: > > Thanks for the info on the 3.2 kernels. That, then, is the issue. > > > > RE Debian: Looks like there has been a new release since I last > > looked. Grabbed the Wheezy release and installed on a test system > > last night. Software synth works fine on that machine. No serial > > port on this system to test with DEC. I will see how it does on the > > main server later this week when I can have it down for an extended > > period. I can live with a software synth as long as I can get boot > > messages, and serial ports are getting harder to find on modern mainboards. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
