Back from the "parted" beyond. (f

[Gregory Nowak]

The synth used was a doubletalk pc.
As for running provox when loading a kernel with loadlin, I've found that's not a good idea, since it freezes my boxes when I try that.
My solution is to simply make a batch file with speech, reboot so that no provox tsr is present (which also causes problems if it is), and run the batch file. When I do that, everything goes flawlessly.
Greg


On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:18:28PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> That is interesting, Greg -
> 
> Provox takes extreme measures not to hog the processor, but it
> has still caused problems for me on some systems. Perhaps it
> depends on the synthesizer also. A related reliable failure for
> me has been when booting Linux from a loadlin in DOS. The loadlin
> banner and credits screen rapidly fills the synthesizer buffer
> and keeps it talking during the time the Linux kernel is testing
> for the presence of the synth, and as a result the kernel cannot
> find the synthesizer!!! Another case where the speech has to be
> silenced before letting loadlin execute. Maybe the loadlin screen
> output could be redirected to a null device - I have not tried
> that - but provox also has a command line parameter to shut the
> speech up, so it can be included in a batch file.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > Chuck,
> > I just thought you might like to know that I've used rawrite with 4 disks while provox7 was running and talking, and they all booted and worked fine. So, I guess there is one exception to the rule (grin).
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:56:16AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > One thing to keep in mind, which I am sure you already know, is
> > > that rawrite is very touchy and needs the undivided attention of
> > > your processor. That means you must disable your speech while
> > > rawrite is executing. If you let your computer talk while rawrite
> > > is executing you are virtually guaranteed to have disk errors in
> > > the resulting floppy.
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Well Linux shows it as a 1.44 MB, and other floppies boot just fine.  I
> > > > think I'm going to try the whole process again with a later version of
> > > > rawrite and see if that makes any difference.
> > > > thanks for the suggestion, though.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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