at a loss

[Janina Sajka]

Not necessarily. I had a laptop once where the serial port worked in
Windows, but not in DOS. It is possible for the OS to do some
reassigning, of ports.

Arcane and unlikely as this may be, it's worth probing. Point of fact is
that the Express is a common device used for Speakup and for
installation of Linux with Speakup. So, it's unlikely that the problem
is in the source files.

Are you per chance on a laptop?

jaffar at jeffstudio.net writes:
> 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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> >>Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040
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> >>
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> >>problem.
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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)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.