Talking Debian Install Not Talking

[Alex Snow]

Hi.  That might be your problem.  that line isn't right.  Here's the one I
used with my slackware install but it might work on debian: Note that you
should replace the acntpc with dectlk
ramdisk speakup_synth=acntpc


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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Luke Davis wrote:

> Good Evening:
>
> I should have known: nothing is ever as easy as you think it will be.
>
> I made the boot disks for a talking Debian Woody install.
>
> After a lot of reading of the Debian docs (there is very nearly nothing in
> the way of speakup docs on the subject) for installations, I figured out
> that you have to boot from the non-aptly-named "rescue floppy".
>
> (Note that I plan to write a how-to on all of this, once I figure out how
> to do it.)
>
> I thus booted the rescue floppy.  At the point where nothing was
> happening, and I thus assumed I was at the expected "boot:" prompt, I
> typed "linux dectlk".  As best as I could tell from Debian: the default
> kernel was "linux".  From the only speakup doc I found that discussed
> setting the speech output device, all I could determine was that you had
> to give the kernel a boot parameter, specifying the speech device, and
> that for the DEC Express, it was "dectlk".  Nothing about specifying a
> port, or anything of that sort, so I guess there is a probe system.
>
> Anyway, I type "linux dectlk", press enter, and a lot of disk activity
> begins, sounding much like a kernel boot process.  No speech yet.
>
> After this all stops, what vision I have, tells me that there is a lot of
> text on screen.  I wait a while, then pull the "rescue" disk, and insert
> the root disk.
>
> I pressed enter, and nothing at all seemed to happen.
> I did so again, and after receiving no action of any sort, I rebooted, and
> am here contacting you all.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how I am supposed to get a DECTalk talking, with
> a Debian -> Speakup install?
>
> So much for getting it done tonight, I suppose.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Luke
>
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