at a loss

[Sean McMahon]

You have to install a firmware if your current firmware isn't the correct
version.  When you turn on your decktalk, it says version number.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jaffar at jeffstudio.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: at a loss


> Hi.  I am not aware that you had to install a firmware for your synth.  I'll
> give it a try.  Cheers!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "jim grimsby" <jimgrims at pacbell.net>
> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:05 AM
> Subject: RE: at a loss
>
>
> One more note what is the fermware of the dectalk express.  It should be
> 4.2b or later.
> There were problems with some of the earlier fermwares of the dectalk
> express.
> You can get the latest fermware for your dectalk express from the gw
> micro home page at http://www.gwmicro.com
> Also you note that you are using the express with other screen readers.
> It is always a good idea while probing for a synthesizer to reset the
> synthesizer so it is set to the defaults.
> Hth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:56 PM
> To: jaffar at jeffstudio.net; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> 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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