Setting up zipspeak

[Gregory Nowak]

Welcome to FS' me series. You're not the first one with this problem, I've heard about the others happening in windows and dos as well.
Greg


On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:56:26AM -0700, Justin Ekis wrote:
> Hi.
> Thanks for the advice.
> I'm using windows ME so can't boot directly to dos in that version so I have to use a windows startup disk.
> I found the config.sys that windows put on the startup disk and added device=c:\windows\himem.sys to the area labeled common. This did help somewhat.
> Now when I start linux the braille lite speaks. But only for a few seconds. It says a few words, but they don't seem to make up any kind of logical sentence, like there's words missing in the middle. But it said something about braille, speakup and the kernal.
> Then the braille lite stopped speaking and froze up. I know it was the braille lite and not the computer or linux because it wouldn't even respond to the command to take it out of speach box mode.
> Well, it seems my guess was right. The newer note takers in the series won't work with it.
> 
> Oh well.
> I guess I'll have to wait for software speach support.
> 
> Thanks again.
> Justin
> 
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> On 4/12/2002 at 10:03 AM Pete wrote:
> 
> >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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