DoubleTalk Weirdness

[Debee Norling]

Has anyone experienced this strange problem?

It's a really, and I mean really old Doubletalk. I found it in the back of
my closet. It has a 1990 date printed on it. When I run DTINFO in DOS, it
reports a ROM version of 1.33. It works fine with VocalEyes in DOS.

But with CVS Speakup and kernel 2.4.26, if you shut it up any time during
the first thirty seconds of booting, it stays really shut up.

You can log in and use the machine ok, but there is no speech. You can
reboot and continue to use the machine, still no speech.

The only way to get speech back is to completely turn the machine off, power
it back up and avoid shutting it up until it has spoken for at least thirty
or forty seconds.

--Debee