usb ports only on laptop

[Raul A. Gallegos]

That is what I was afraid of.  I can probably install Linux just fine with 
minimal sighted assistance since I know the prompts for FC3 and for 
Slackware 10.1 very well.  I will probably go ahead with FC3 since that is 
my latest distro to learn adding to Slack and Debian knowledge.

What I wonder then, is if once the laptop is booted and running, if I could 
run speakup modules for speak-out after the USB to serial is connected.  I 
know software speech is nice but I still love my good old trusty hardware 
synthesizer.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: usb ports only on laptop


> Hi,
> You can't use a USB to serial converter to use a serial synthesizer with
> Speakup. It has something to do with the hardware. I don't really
> understand the exact problem myself, you'd have to ask Kurk. All I know
> is that it doesn't work. If you are running Linux on a laptop with no
> serial ports, the only option you have is software speech.
>
> Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
> Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7
>
> And so it came to pass that on Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Raul A. Gallegos said
>
>> Hi.  I have a laptop which has zero serial ports.  If I purchase a USB
> to
>> serial converter and connect a speak-out to it will this be active
>> immediately so that I can use the speak-up to install Linux with
> speech?  Or
>> does the USB to serial get configured after boot up meaning I would
> not have
>> access to the serial port right away?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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