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[Reinhard Stebner]

Hello all,

I am having the follow8ing problem on my Linux box running speakup with
slackware 7.1 using a acentsa and a dectlak express.

When booting up for the first time, the system does not load slackware off
of the hard drive.  When I put the boot disk in the drive, it does not find
my acent sa.  I decided to see if Linux would work with my dectalk express.
On the machine I want to put it on, I can not get it to talk with acent or
dectalk.

I was able to install slackware with the acentsa, but now it will not talk.
Before this, I was having a problem were acent would talk after I put a dos
boot disk in the machine with my dos screen reader on it.  It would talk.  I
would then reboot the then put he boot disk from Linux in it and it would
talk fine.  If I were to reboot the system, it would not talk.  Ten I
decided to install Linux with the dectalk express thinking there mite be a
problem with my acentsa. Well, now the machine will not talk with the dos
boot disk in the machine with acent in or not.  I know there is no problem
with the acent because I was able to put it on my win 98 machine and have it
come pu talking with no problem.  Then I decided to see if the Linux boot
disk would talk in the win 98 machine, and it did talk with the dectalk boot
disk.  I got it to talk on the 98 machine with a ramdisk speakup_ser=0
Wel, I thaught I found the problem.  I put that same boot disk on the Linux
only computer and type the same line and discuvered that the machine still
would not talk.  So then I started to mess around with com seting so I typed
ser=0, restarted the machine because it did not talk.  Typed ser=1 and did
the same thing.  I did it for all ser all up to 3 and could not get the
machine to talk with eiterh acentsa or dectalk.

Are there any ideas people have?  One more tidbit of info, if I put the
bootdisk in the 98 machine and just press enter at the prompt, it will not
find acent or dectalk on this machine, and I do not have any ser devices.
Thanks for any help.  PS, this is my first time installing any type of Linux
os.