not working yet

[Frank Carmickle]

Bruce you seem frustraighted.  I will write a message to you off the list
and I will personally make sure you get up and running.  

FC

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Bruce Noblick wrote:

> Hi!
> 
>     I have tried all the suggestions up to this point and still with no
> success.  The last thing I have tried is using Speak Freely using the
> address and port number I was told should work.  I think the version I
> downloaded is 7.1 for windows.  I have been working with this computer in
> this endeavor for about a month.  I think I will just have to conclude that
> it just won't work unless I know more about what I am doing.  My next plan
> is to build a computer to run Linux.  I don't know much about this either
> but it looks more promising than trying to get it to work onthis one.  I
> appreciate all the help that I have found here.  When I do get a computer
> that looks promising, I will start from the beginning and try it again.
> Right now, what I need is something I can do successfully.  I will be back
> when I know more about what I am doing.  I have gotten some good ideas from
> people writing about other topics on this list as well.  I thank everyone
> who has invested time and energy in helping me directly and indirectly.
> 
> Enjoy!
> Bruce
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kaare Dehard" <kaare at home.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 2:07 AM
> Subject: RE: not working yet
> 
> 
> > sometimes it's a very long while, when I first installed I rebooted a
> couple
> > of times when using the downloaded root and boot disks. this isn't the way
> > you can expect it to work after all the install happens though. Also I use
> a
> > transport in dos and linux and when switching over from dos I have to shut
> > down the synth and turn it on to get a complete initialization before
> > speakup will speak to me.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of John Covici
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:33 PM
> > To: speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: not working yet
> >
> >
> > I wonder if your failure to get speech when booting is because of one
> > or more of the following:
> >
> > (1) You booted your DOS system with speech loaded and then tried to
> >     run loadlin -- the speakout has a problem with this.
> >
> > The other possibility which comes to mind is that you are not doing
> > the corrrect boot sequence which is to boot the disk, wait till it
> > stops going, hit enter and then you hear the disk for a while and then
> > it should start talking.
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > --
> >          John Covici
> >          covici at ccs.covici.com
> >
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