Tony, Will try the new images, I may well have goofed something up after speakup was killed, My wife barely khnows limux so may not have read something critical. Should have put the image on a CDRW, not a CDR, but they're cheap More soon Thanks Tom Fowle On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:21:02AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: > On 12/1/2015 6:28 PM, Tom Fowle wrote: > >Attempted to run my serial port alva display, brltty responded to command > >but display did not come up. It works in Debian. > > Yes, that's a Ubuntu problem which should now be fixed. It doesn't > start automatically in Ubuntu by default. > > > > >Killed speakup etc. with the commands you gave me. > >did > >modprobe speakup_dtlk > > > >could not find speakup_dtlk > > > > Hmm, it finds speakup_dtlk fine here. It says it's version 2.10 and > supports the Doubletalk PC. > > >Should that have been > >modprobe speakup.dtlk instead of "line" dtlk > > No, it's definitely speakup_dtlk. > > > > >Just for interest? machine is an Asis P2B 1GHz celeron with 780MB ram (all > >it will take) > > I tested it with 1 GB of memory, so this is helpful. I would expect > it not to be very responsive. The CD image uploading now will > hopefully help. > > >Response on the livetest cd is pretty sluggish, but not unexpected, it's that > >way running orca/gnome from Debian wheezy > > > >We have at least one other older box on which we can try the livetest just > >to see if it works, but that other box has no isa slots so no go for > >doubletalk. > >Happy to try if simply reporting another successfull livetest boot > > Yes, the more testing it gets, the better. I don't think it's going > to run on a machine with less memory, but it's worth a try. New CD > images are uploading which should address the Braille display > problem. I don't know why it can't find speakup_dtlk since it's > definitely shipped in the kernel. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
