Newbie introdusing myself and some newbie questions

[John covici]

YOur synth may not be dected properly -- I am not sure of that, check
with Kirk on that one.

I assume you downloaded this from the speakup sight and that there
were no errors during the burn.

on Saturday 10/11/2003 Krister Ekstrom(crisekstrom at bredband.net) wrote
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 > Hi John,
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 > On 11 Oct 2003 11:25:16  (my local time 17:25:16), you typed::
 > Jc> did you give it any boot
 > Jc> paraneters at the prompt when it comes up, if not it won't do very
 > Jc> much.
 > 
 > So I did.
 > 
 > Jc> The way its set up now your synthesizer must be on com1 (ttyS0) and
 > Jc> at the prompt say knoppix 2 speakup_synth=your synth name and that
 > Jc> should boot the thing.
 > 
 > Well, either i must have done something very wrong, or it's something
 > else, because i did just that. At what i believe must be the boot
 > prompt, i typed: "knoppix 2 speakup_synth=apolo" without the quotes and pressed enter and
 > waited and waited and... Well, there may be things i've overlooked but
 > i can't say what.
 > Could it be that my old hardware Juno isn't detected correctly? Could
 > it be that as english isn't the default language of the synth, that
 > that could present problems?
 > - --
 > /Krister
 > crisekstrom at bredband.net
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         John Covici
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