speakup on red hat 6.2

[Janina Sajka]

Nonsense. The speed of the cpu has nothing to do with communication on the
serial port. There it's the same old old same.

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, David Poehlman wrote:

> the system is a brand new huge dell machine.  wonder if it is too
> fast for the decxp?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward at bright.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 12:18 AM
> Subject: Re: speakup on red hat 6.2
>
>
> I would also make sure that you had the right boot disk for Red
> Hat 6.2 and
> the dectalk. I made the mistake myself when doing a Red Hat
> install I had
> grabbed the wrong Dectalk disk, and it didn't work until I got the
> right
> one.
> However, I can assure you in most cases the Dectalk does work
> under RH 6.2
> and RH 7.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Cc: "SPEAKUP Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>;
> "MIKE
> CALVO" <mike at radiowebcaster.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: speakup on red hat 6.2
>
>
> >
> > David:
> >
> > You don't say what system you're trying to work with or how the
> DEC Talk
> > is connected, so it can be a bit difficult to give you specific
> advice.
> > Let me make two suggestions:
> >
> > 1.) You might want to consider Redhat 7.0 though this won't
> likely fix
> > your immediate problem;
> >
> > 2.) You might try passing the following type of argument at the
> > non-speaking "Boot>" prompt that pops up early during the floppy
> boot
> > process:
> >
> > speakup_ser=1
> >
> > If the kernel assigns ttyS0 to some port other than the one
> you've
> > connected DEC Talk to, even though you may think it should be
> ttyS0, it
> > won't work because you're not actually connecting. So, try
> pushing up the
> > serial port designation as above.
> >  On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, David Poehlman
> > wrote:
> >
> > > We're attempting to get this up and running with a dec
> express.
> > > we've a boot disk that was created but we aren't getting it to
> > > talk.  Please help if possible?
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
> > > mailto:poehlman1 at home.com
> > > url: http://members.home.com/poehlman1/
> > > i c q: 6958436
> > > voice 301-949-7599
> > > end sig.
> > >
> > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina at afb.net
(202) 408-8175
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The invention of the printing press has been named the crowning
achievement of the past millennium. Yet, electronic publishing will soon
eclipse it. Read our White Paper: "Surpassing Gutenberg" available at:

	http://www.afb.org/ebook.html

Are you developing software? Make it accessible to blind computer users.
Read http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html to learn how.