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

Sun May 14 14:21:34 EDT 2000

Hi there Victor

Well yes this is what I am talking about.  However the redhat boot disks
use syslinux instead of lilo as there boot loader. 

I haven't gotten a chance to work on the slackware bootdisks with the
talking lilo yet. 

FC

On Sun, 14 May 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:00:47 -0700
> From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at nimbus.ocis.temple.edu>
> 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
>     withDoubleTalkLT
> 
> Actually, I once succedded to have LILO talk on a Redhat system. is that the
> trestriction you speak of?
> Regards,
> Vic
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <frankiec at unforgettable.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Redhat6.1 boot disks with Speakup don't seem to work
> withDoubleTalkLT
> 
> 
> > 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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