Speakout and com port installing slackware

[John Gunn]

Hello Joseph:

Okay and thanks to you, Raul, and Tomy for all the information.  As I am
writing this I am downloading the current directory from slackware and hope
it's the right one.

Again to you Joseph, very nice job on the tutorial and last week downloade
the real audio files and with Cakewalk put them on a couple of cds and sound
quality is good.

Wish me luck and I am sure I'll be writing later as this project gets going.
smile


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Norton" <jnorton at vol.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; "Speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: Speakout and com port installing slackware


> Hi John:
>
> Speakup may be able to autodetect your synth.  If not, read on.
>
> Below is a section of the README file under the main slackware directory
on
> booting up Slackware.  Note the section just below the example startup
> screen.  This tells you the parameters that should force Speakup to use a
> different com port.  The complete text of this file is at:
>
> ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/README
>
> 3.  Booting Up For The First Time
>
> Place your boot disk in the A: drive and reboot your machine.  After the
> disk spins for a few seconds, you should be presented with a screen that
> looks something like this:
>
> --------------------
> Welcome to the Slackware Linux (v. 7.1.0) bare.i bootdisk!
>
> If you need to pass extra parameters to the kernel, enter them at the
prompt
> below after one of the valid configuration names:  ramdisk (to load a
rootdisk
> into memory and boot it), and mount (to boot an existing Linux partition).
> NOTE:  Most hardware is auto-detected without parameters.  So, before
assuming
>         your system requires parameters, try a few different bootdisks.
:^)
>
> Here are some examples (and more can be found in the BOOTING file):
>     ramdisk hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq  (needed only if probing fails)
>     ramdisk hdx=cdrom (force detection of an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive)
>     where hdx can be any of hda through hdh. Examples:
> hdc=1050,32,64  hdd=cdrom
>
> If you would rather load the root/install disk from your second floppy
drive:
>     ramdisk root=/dev/fd1
>
> In a pinch, you can boot your Linux system with a command like:
>     mount root=/dev/hda1
>
> DON'T SWITCH ANY DISKS YET! This prompt is just for entering extra
parameters.
> If you don't need to enter any parameters, hit ENTER to continue.
>
> Boot:
> --------------------
>
> Press Enter when this message appears and you should hear the disk work
> for about 30 seconds (this time may vary depending on several
> factors).  The Linux kernel is being loaded at this time.  After this,
> Speakup will try to autodetect your speech synthesizer and you should hear
> your synthesizer start talking and reading the boot messages.  If this
> doesn't happen, it is possible that Speakup wasn't able to detect your
> synthesizer.  This can be due to several problems.  One problem I had was
> that my LiteTalk was on com2 and I have a modem on com1.  Speakup didn't
> get past the modem.  If this happens, you can force Speakup to use a
> certain serial port to try to find the synthesizer on.  To do this, reboot
> the system and at the Boot: prompt, type the word "ramdisk" a space and
> speakup_ser=X (where X is the Linux serial port number.  This is usually
> derived by subtracting 1 from the DOS comm port number.  For example, if
> your synthesizer was on com2, you would use a command similar to this:
>
> ramdisk speakup_ser=1
>
> This will force Speakup to use com2 for your synthesizer.  If all goes
> well, you should hear your synthesizer going through the boot messages.
>
> The boot messages are quite lengthy (even for the boot disk), so you may
> want to silence speech.  You do this by pressing the Enter key on the
> numeric keypad.
>
> If all goes well, you should have a message at the bottom of your screen
> that looks something like this:
>
> VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
>
> If you silenced speech with the numpad Enter, you should be able to press
> 7 on the numeric keypad to read the previous line and you should hear the
> above message.
>
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