Setting up zipspeak

Fri Apr 12 20:37:56 EDT 2002

And after all that, I think I've found the answer.
Lol. Why didn't I ask this to begin with when it wasn't working? Considering how long I've been using the blazie/fs note takers this should have been obvious.
Anyone have an idea what communication settings I should be using in the m20 to work with speakup?
If the transmission speed, data bits stop bits and the like aren't set correctly strange stuff can happen.
If I can get this set right I'll be all set.

Thanks.

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On 4/12/2002 at 6:39 PM Alex Snow wrote:

>Well, at least your braille lite said something.  My 2000 won't say
>anything.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Justin Ekis" <JEkis at sbcglobal.net>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:56 AM
>Subject: Re: Setting up zipspeak
>
>
>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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