synth detection problems

[Alex Snow]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: synth detection problems


> You really should give us more information;
> what version of speakup?
Whatever version comes with zipspeak 8.0.
What boot disk?
What kernel version?
Whatever kernel is used with zipspeak, I think it's something like 2.2.20

> What type of machine is this?
1 ghz amd duron.
> Does the detect work if you power on the synth
> and then the machine?
Nope.
 does the detect work if you
> specify both speakup_synth and speakup_ser?
nope.

> for example:
> linux speakup_synth=ltlk speakup_ser=0
> looks for a bns on com1.
> A bug report that says "the synth detect doesn't work" is no use to
anyone;
> it doesn't work for me either in certain circumstances; for example if my
> transport was allready powered on and had been in linux first;
> but I am not r unning latest cvs so I have not worried too much.
> Obviously the detect does work for a lot of folks; so we need to try find
out
> what difference is in your hardware; what versions you are tr ying and the
like.
> In older speakup synth detect did depend on machine speed.
> Too fast or too slow a box and the detect would fail.
> For example the transport was detected fine on the k6-2/500 but
> not the 486dx4/100 or the Duron 750.
> This problem was fixed when I upgraded to speakup 1.0.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:03AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have been having this problem for several months:
> > speakup won't detect my synth.  I have ruled out the possibility of bad
> > synth/cable because both synths work in dos.
> > I have tried a bns and a dectalk, both with no luck.
> > -------------------------------
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