flashing dectalk

[Alex Snow]

you cant send the command while speakup is loaded. it takes control 
of the serial port.
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:41:30AM -0500, Igor Gueths 
wrote:
> Actually, I already tried that. And it appears to not work. I'm starting 
> to think that I need to have an unreserved serial port for version 
> identification to work propperly. Has anyone been able to send the :ver 
> speak command directly to the express, even with Speakup running and 
> using the synth? 
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 08:00:15PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 wrote:
> > 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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