talking lilo prompt?

Brent Harding bharding at mail.ufw2.com
Wed Aug 16 13:26:03 EDT 2000


I thought linux has no support for isa devices, so isapnp tools is still
needed.
At 01:34 PM 8/16/00 +1000, you wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Brent Harding wrote:
>
>> Why then, does my double talk pc work without isapnp? I thought isapnp was
>> needed for all isa cards, or does speakup get it even though the OS doesn't
>> really know about it, like windows screen readers, never show the
>> synthesizer in device manager.
>
>The doubletalk card doesn't use an IRQ.  This is why it doesn't show up in
>device manager.  It's also therefore not a plug and play device, so you
>don't need isapnptools.  In fact, if you did have a plug and play speech
>card then speakup as it currently is would have problems.
>
>Geoff.
>
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