ibm laptops

[Janina Sajka]

I've had a series of Thinkpads running Linux with Speakup starting with
a 560 back around 1998/1999. I just installed on an X31 that I bought on
Ebay.

Have you enabled the DB9 port as your serial A port? Many Thinkpads
default to assigning the serial device to the infrared port. There are
two settings you need to tweak in biox to fix this. If you have the
Thinkpad DOS utilities, you can find this under the ps command (or was
it the ps2 command?).

Good luck and hang in there. These are great little machines, and you
can expect to get Speakup working very well once you get everything
lined up correctly.

Alex Snow writes:
> Hi all.
> Has anyone successfully installed speakup on an ibm thinkpad? I've tried 
> slackware, debian, and tomsrtbt on my thinkpad 380ed and another older 
> thinkpad of unknown model (the date on the botom says 1996). Whenever I 
> try booting I get no speach. I've even tried giving the speakup_ser 
> option for ports 0 and 1 but nothing. I'm using an artic transport as 
> the synth.
> 
> -- 
> Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the 
> grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin 
> charging at them in excess of 100mph.  They'd be a lot more careful about what 
> they say if they had. 
> 	-- Linus Torvalds, announcing Linux v2.0
> 
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
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