Talking Debian Install Not Talking

[Janina Sajka]

If you would do less surmissing and a bit more reading, you could avoid
these problems.

You can find very explicit instructions about this in the Speakup
Modified HOWTO:

http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhaat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html

Yes, the HOWTO is aabout Red Hat, but there's a lot that's common
aacross all distributions, including the booting process and getting
Speakup to see your synth.

Pleaase pardon me, but I must complain. You say you're going to write
documentation for Debian. Well and good. We need it. But, a good writer
should first become thoroughly familiar with the existing literature.
Otherwise, how will you creatively plaagerize, as indeed you should?
<grin>

By the way, you also don't need to surmise whether or not the "linux"
part of your command is correct or not. This too is in my HOWTO. Look at
the syslinux.cfg file with any tool thaat reads ASCII. It's not at all
mysterious.


Luke Davis writes:
> From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> 
> I will try it now.  I have tried every other possible combination I could
> devise (including dectlk, dtlk, decext, etc.).  Nowhere that I found, was
> this written as the proper kernel parameter, and I must be missing a doc,
> somewhere.
> 
> Btw: dumb newbee error on the not booting root disk situation: I must have
> hit numpad enter, the first time, instead of regular enter.  Fine if not
> using the default keymap, but otherwise is the shutup key.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Toby Fisher wrote:
> 
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> > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Luke Davis wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Ok, yes, you are correct to asume that it can auto-detect, in most cases,
> > where the synthesiser is.
> >
> > However, I think I know what your problem is.
> >
> > You missed a bit in your typing, what you should have typed at the prompt
> > was:
> >
> > linux speakup_synth=dectlk
> >
> > Hopefully you should find that that works fine.
> >
> > Kind regards.
> >
> > - --
> > Toby Fisher	Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk
> > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272	Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239
> > ICQ: #61744808
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175