Problems with Speakup and Redhat

Brent Harding bharding at ufw2.com
Fri Oct 20 22:11:17 EDT 2000


You probably have to enter speech box mode for it to work. There's several
ways in the help file, I believe each does something a little different.
At 12:54 AM 10/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>I'm trying to install Redhat Linux version 6.1 on my pc.
>I can't get my braille lite to work with speakup.
>I have my braille lite set to 9600 baud, a stop bit, 8 data bits, no
>parity, and software handshaking.
>I downloaded the bnsb.bin file from the speakup ftp site, extracted it
>with rawrite, and tried rebooting my computer.
>The floppy accessed for a few seconds, I assumed I had a "Boot:" prompt on
>my screen, so I pressed enter.
>The floppy accessed for a while longer, my braille lite made a pop sound
>as if something had been sent to it to speak, but none of the speakup
>reading keys seemed to produce any speech.
>Any help that can be offered would be appriciated.  Thanks
>
>Jim
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
>





More information about the Speakup mailing list