not working yet

[Bruce Noblick]

Hi!

I added the line
serial 0 9600
to the syslinux.cfg file like you suggested when I called.  Well, it speaks
up through the boot prompt.  After entering the line starting with linux,
there is disk activity and finally a message about an error and a prompt to
press any key to reboot.  When you press a key, it starts over.  I saw
various labels in the syslinux.cfg file and just for grins, I tried them
instead of typing linux.  The behavior was identical to typing linux.  If I
typed any other string, it said kernel image not found and returned to the
boot prompt.  I don't know if it is significant but pressing the F6 key
produced the same resultas typing linux instead of displaying the file that
was associated with it like the other function keys did.  All of the other
function keys spoke the contents of the file that were associated with them.

I hope there is something here that makes sense to someone.

Thanks again for the help.

Enjoy!
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Carmickle" <frankiec at braille.uwo.ca>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: not working yet


> 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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