at a loss

[jaffar at jeffstudio.net]

Hi. as far as I can tell, it is working propperly, or mmy wouldn't be 
propperly functioning with window eyes or jaws.  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 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: at a loss


> To this list of questions I add, is your serial port enabled properly in 
> the
> bios?I've seen it happen where my bns won't startup doing a fresh install 
> on one
> computer but it will work fine on another computer using the same 
> installation
> media.  How about a more basic question, how's the condition of your 
> cable?
> What happens when you move the cable connecting the synth to the computer 
> around
> a little.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: <jaffar at jeffstudio.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for 
> Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: at a loss
>
>
>> Let's review a bit, if you don't mind. Pardon if you've mentioned this
>> already:
>>
>> 1.) Where did you get FC3?
>>
>> 2.) Do the best of your ability, you have verified you have good
>> installation media? Date/time stamps all match, byte size, etc. I
>> understand you can't run rsync.
>>
>> 3.) Have you tried booting without the speakup_ser part of the
>> command?
>>
>> 4.) Do you know for a fact your bios allows booting from cd rom?
>> That this feature is, in fact, enabled?
>>
>>
>> jaffar at jeffstudio.net writes:
>> > 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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>>
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>> problem.
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