external synth

[Victor Tsaran]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinhard Stebner" <raydar at tamu.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:31 AM
Subject: external synth


> 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.
>
>
>
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