Did you look at the specs to see if they had the headers -- what they seem to be doing these days is have the headers without a cable or bracket, so you have to bring it out to a slot on the back of the unit. Mitchell D. Lynn <mlynn at kc.rr.com> wrote: > 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 at linux-speakup.org] 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
