Redhat6.1 boot disks with Speakup don't seem to work withDoubleTalk LT

[frankiec at unforgettable.com]

Vic
I think I know what your problem is.  It won't be fixed by the
speakup_ser variable.  If it would be fixed by the speakup_ser kernel
parameter you would type "text speakup_ser=0" because you are using com1,
which is ttyS0.  

I am going to guess that you have the problem with these machines that I
have with lots of machines that I get my hands on.  If you can wait until
later on this weekend sometime I will try to build some speakup slackware
bootdisks with the talking lilo prompt.  I have found that on at least one
system this has solved the detection of serial synths problem.

The issue is that the uarts aren't awake until data gets sent through
them.  Don't ask me why because I have no freekin idea.  All I can tell
you is that this baffled me for about four months until I started really
understanding there behavior.  This took that long for me to really see
what was going on.  I couldn't narrow it down because of all of the
variables.  I think that we are going to need to come up with a fix for
these problems at the speakup level but for now this is a fix.  

I can't make redhat do this because it uses syslinux and I don't think
that you can use the serial port terminal with this boot loader.  Someone
please correct me if I am in error on this one.

Hope this helps.

FC


On Fri, 12 May 2000, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 07:27:34 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Janina Sajka <janina at afb.net>
> Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Redhat6.1 boot disks with Speakup don't seem to work
>     withDoubleTalk LT
> 
> 
> Hi, Voictor:
> 
> At the boot prompt, when you're booting from the ltlkb floppy image you
> need to type all of the following on one line before pressing enter:
> 
> text speakup_ser=1
> 
> At least, that's what uncorked the genie in my bottle. Your mileage may
> vary, but it sounds like you didn't give the speakup variable a go.
> 
> 				Janina
> 
> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> 
> > Janina, I did what you suggested, but nothing works still. Here is what I
> > did:
> > 
> > downloaded ltlkb.bin
> > 
> > with rawrite copied it onto an empty floppy.
> > Connected Doubletalk LT to com1, both machines are desktops, BTW.
> > Reboot computer, prompt comes up. I type
> > 
> > text <ENTER>
> > 
> > The booting process proceeds as if there is no speakup built-in.
> > Do you have any other suggestions?
> > Vic
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Cc: <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: Redhat6.1 boot disks with Speakup don't seem to work
> > withDoubleTalk LT
> > 
> > 
> > > Vic:
> > >
> > > I had the same problem with my IBM Thinkpad 560Z.
> > >
> > > The issue turned out to be that the serial port on  the backplane of the
> > > Thinkpad was being seen by Linux as ttyS1. Seems the irda port on the
> > > front plane is ttyS0. So, the fix was to add the following at the boot
> > > prompt:
> > >
> > > speakup_ser=1
> > >
> > > so my boot prompt response became:
> > >
> > > text speakup_ser=1
> > >
> > > That did it.
> > >  On Thu, 11 May 2000, Victor Tsaran
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I downloaded the boot disk for RedHat6.1, ltlkb.bin, and copied it onto
> > a
> > > > floppy. I tried it on two machines and in both cases the machines
> > booted, but
> > > > no speech ever came up. Anyone have an idea why this behavior?
> > > > Vic
> > > >
> > > >
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