BLT and Toshiba and Speakup

[Gregory Nowak]

I've seen this behavior in 2 instances with a bns640, accent pc, and double talk pc.

It happened either when I was trying to load a ramdisk larger then the amount of ram in the system, or when I was having some w\eird problems with one of my motherboards, and in that case, I would get the rising-falling alarm beeps from my pc speaker comi\ng from the bios, until I powered the machine down.

Greg
 
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:20:46AM +1000, Michael Curran wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am currently trying to use my Braille Lite 18 as a Braille and Speak for
> speakup on my Toshiba Te2000 laptop.
> 
> It works absolutely fine if I use it on my normal Desktop PC, speakup finds
> the bns, it starts talking, everything is fine.
> 
> But on the toshiba, it finds the bns, starts talking, but it only talks for
> the first 6 lines or so then just stops. After that I can cursor around
> although the speech keeps getting interupted  after the first word or so. 
> 
> How ever, the Braille display is showing the full string its trying to say,
> but the speech just ... stops all the time.
> As I have said, it works fine on my desktop so I don't think it has to do
> with the settings on my Braille Lite.
> 
> (This is the exact same kernel).
> 
> Just in case, here are my braille lite settings:
> 
> 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity bits, 1 stop bit, software handshaking.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure about the handshaking, although, on software, hardware
> and none it makes no difference.
> 
> Oh and its also on half-duplex.
> 
> I havn't had time to test the toshiba using my Braille Blazer  as a bns to
> say if the results are the same.
> 
> If anyone has any idea on why this is happening I'd love to hear from you :)
> 
> Thanks
> Mick
> 
> Oh I forgot to say:
> 
> if I press the advance bar on the blt it starts to say "invalid paramiter"
> but usually gets interupted around the end of "invalid" ... its if there's a
> constant pulse of speakup "shut-up" signals being sent to it.
> Again, this is not so on my desktop.
> 
> -- 
> Michael D. Curran
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