flashing dectalk

William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 wacker at octothorp.org
Sat Feb 7 22:00:15 EST 2004


Folks:  How 'bout using /dev/synth when Speakup is running to talk 
directly to the DT-Express.  If you don't have it, do:
mknod /dev/synth c 10 25
          HTH.
-- 

Bill in Denver

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Garrett Klein wrote:

> 
> Methinks that it's because of Speakup hogging the com port, even if you kill
> it with prtsc...
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at comcast.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:28 PM
> Subject: Re: flashing dectalk
> 
> 
> > Hmmm. This is very weird...I'm still not getting the firmware version. I
> > tried echo "[:ver speak]" >/dev/ttyS0 and that gotme back to the prompt.
> > I also did /dev/ttys0 and I got an input/output error. I wonder what
> > echo is doing to the command?
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:07:27PM -0500, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:
> > > Igor,
> > > Try:
> > > echo "[:ver speak]" >/dev/ttys0
> > > Linux may be trying to replace the [ or ]?  Enclosing it in quotes may
> help.
> > > Yes, I pulled the command straight out of the manual and tested on my
> system
> > > (Win NT 4).
> > > Sorry I couldn't provide more definative answers.
> > > Cecil
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