Speakup or dectalk, and the answer?

[David Bruzos]

Hi:
I had a similar problem with my LTLK.  The infrared port on my laptop
would cause problems with com1 and speakup would not speak.  I don't know
if they were sharing IRQ's, but disabling the infrared port fixed my
problem.  Have you tried going in your BIOS and looking around for the
com3 that you don't have?  Some times motherboards will not have an
external port for a device, but the chipset supports it anyway.  Maybe
just a quick look in your BIOS will fix your problem...

HTH

David B.


jaffar at jeffstudio.net said:
> Hi Friends.  So I am back with the same problem.  With the help of my
> sighted nephew, I can confirm the installation of Fedora takes place when
> I boot from Disk 1 of the Fedora Distro.  Problem is, speakup or dectalk
> won't communicate that info to me.  My nephew saw two options onscreen
> when the install starts, press enter for the graphical installation or
> type linux for a textual installation.  I tried text speakup_synth=dectlk,
> but with no success.  Dectalk or speakup, i don't know which, just shuts
> up on me.  If the worse came to the worse, if I were to get my nephew's
> assistance during the install process, how then can i get speakup to work
> after the install stage?  Also, and I don't know if this would solve the
> problem, the com port 1 and the non-existent com port 3 is sharing the
> same IRq allocation.  Could it be that speakup, because of this shared
> resource allocation cannot determine exactly on which port my dectalk
> express is connected too?  All solutions to this on running puzzle is very
> much appreciated.  Cheers!No virus found in this outgoing message.
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