at a loss

[jaffar at jeffstudio.net]

Hi.  My dactalk said nothing.  Apart from 3 or 4 garbled words which was 
beyond me, it said absolutely nothing after that.  Cheers!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon at usgs.gov>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: at a loss


> Going back to this orriginal thread, When your decktalk stops speaking, or 
> you
> tell it to shutup,what does speakup say when you hit the read current line 
> key?
> The bootup process will say a lot of what may seem  to be useless 
> information.
> Have you tried specifying the speakup and text parameters but not the 
> specific
> serial port?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: <jaffar at jeffstudio.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for 
> Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: at a loss
>
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>> Just because you can't get fedora installed, doesn't mean you should
>> give up on installing gnu/linux. After all, fedora is not the only
>> gnu/linux distribution out there. There are also:
>>
>> slackware: <http://www.slackware.com/>,
>>
>> debian: <http://www.debian.org/>,
>>
>> gentoo: <http://www.gentoo.org/>
>>
>> just to name a few. The best thing of course would be if a fedora user
>> was able to help you solve your problems, and get up and
>> running. However, if that doesn't happen, look at other distributions
>> before deciding to quit on gnu/linux. The good news is that there are
>> slackware, debian, and gentoo users on here as well.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:38:50PM +0800, jaffar at jeffstudio.net wrote:
>> > Hi Friends.  It seems to me that my ambition to install and learn the 
>> > ins
> and outs of the linux OS has all but failed.  I have copied the 
> installation
> howto into braille to the letter as ready reference, done all that is 
> required
> of me at the preparation stage, even did almost nothing else but tried to 
> get
> FC3 installed for the past 2 days, but nothing seems to work.  I can't 
> even get
> past the first stage of text installation simply because speakup refuses 
> to talk
> to my Dectalk express.  I cannot say if my dectalk express is the source 
> of the
> problem because it works very well with Wineyes and jaws even.  I am 
> totally
> stuck now and don't know what else I can do.  Unless someone who has 
> installed
> linux with the dectalk express synth is willing to help me, i'll have to 
> shelf
> the idea of installing linux, at least for the foreseeable future. 
> Cheers!
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