Dec Talk internal cards supported?

[Erik Heil]

Hi there. How would one download the necissary software onto the Dectalk
board?  BC what I was thinking is possibly modify the firmware on the board
so that it doesn't need to be downloaded or sent an init command.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Collins" <collins at gene3.ait.iastate.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Dec Talk internal cards supported?


> Hello all.  There are no dectalk internal boards supported to my
> knowledge.  Only the external serial dectalk express and the original
> dectalk external synthesizers are supported.  The problem with the
> internal isa cards is that they have to have software downloaded onto
> the card before they can be used.  Since Speakup is activated and
> initialized almost the first thing after the kernel is loaded and
> initialized, and before the file system is available, there is at
> present no way to have the kernel download the software onto the
> internal dectalk boards.  I believe you can use these boards with emacs
> speak, but I am not familiar with it, and so can not say.  Making these
> dectalk boards usable is on Kirk's to do list, but there are a number of
> things that have to happen first, such as the almost complete rewrite of
> Speakup to make it usable with the 2.2.5 kernels, and the modularization
> of the synthesizer drivers, before a dectalk-pc driver could be written.
>
> Gene
>
> >It is difficult to find computers or have on ebuilt with the isa slots
> >required for the dec pc's.  So $150 might be unrealistic.
> >
> >-- charlie.
>
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