Setting up zipspeak

[Pete]

  Hi
  I have windows 98 s e  and I go to shutdown and restart in m s dos mode.
I think loadlin needs himem.sys to work but am not sure so I placed a
device=c:\windows\himem.sys
line in the config.sys file.  The config.sys file I have is empty except for
the line loading himem.sys...  To boot zipspeak or the umsdos slackware
linux I used a l.bat file some thing like this:
@echo off
c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\linux\(kernel name) /dev/hda1 speakup_synth=(your
keyword for your synthasiser)
  You will need loadlin.exe the linux loader.  I unzipped the loadlin
program files to c:\loadlin, you don't need to do this except there is
documentation explaining how to use loadlin.  /dev/hda1 is the first
partission on the first drive (C:>) if this is whear your zipspeak
distribution is it should be fine.  There are other parameters you may need
to specifie in the batch file I don't know about.
  Pete


----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Ekis" <JEkis at sbcglobal.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 3:41 AM
Subject: Setting up zipspeak


Hello again all,

I'm back and giving linux another try.
I tried several weeks ago but had problems. I've been busy and am now
getting back to it.
Ok, I've managed to get a little farther than the last time I posted. I have
created a windows me boot disk and tried to start linux  from there. I had
sighted help and when i changed to the c: drive and ran linux.bat they said
they saw some kind of error message but it went by too fast to read. There
was lots of text. My synth didn't say a word though. The problem is I don't
know if I set something up wrong or if it's my ssynth.
The documentation says I can use the braille 'n speak or any of that line of
blazie note takers for speach I believe, but I use the new braille lite m20
and I think I read somewhere that the braille lite m20 and m40 use different
speach technology than the earlier products so I don't know if it's
compatible with speakup at all. Would it be possible to use software speach?
I also could be setting it up wrong though. Am I supposed to put any other
files on the startup disk other than what windows puts on there?

Thanks much in advance for any help. I've had the extreme misfortune of
running microsoft crashware, er, I mean windows, for more than 5 years and
so now seem to lose all computer knoledge once I'm outside of it. Lol.

Thanks again.
Justin


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