Speakup or dectalk, and the answer?

[Gregory Nowak]

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Actually, the linux designation for the first rs232 serial port is
/dev/ttyS0, or just ttyS0 for short. ser0 is a speakup-specific
parameter.

Greg


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:48:39AM +0800, jaffar at jeffstudio.net wrote:
> Hi all.  Perhaps I must make my position clear here.  First, I have but one 
> and only one machine, and if I were to install Linux, I'll have to share it 
> with an already installed Microsoft windows box.  Second, my dectalk 
> express hardware is installed and connected to com port 1, or ser 0 in the 
> Linux equivalent, and since I'm not yet a linux expert like most of you on 
> this list, I of course had to highlight my problem in a language that I can 
> understand in the hope that those of you linux experts who've had 
> experience with the Microsoft Windows environment can help me with my 
> problem.  I am aware that this is a linux list, and I am aware that I am 
> not a Linux freak by any stretch of the emagination.  But I am willing to 
> learn a totally new environment to widen my knowledge in computers, and 
> comments like these, far from helping, will surely turn me off and away 
> from the linux OS that I was so keen to learn.  If i didn't have a problem, 
> If my desire to install linux went as smooth as some of you had 
> encountered, I won't be struggling and asking these questions that I deem 
> to be so important to get myself up and running.  I have spent countless 
> hours downloading the various linux distros, trying my darndest to get them 
> installed, all to no avail.  But i figure it will be comments like these 
> that will turn me away, and not the installation struggles that I've had to 
> go through.  So I'll get off this list and stick to what I know and be all 
> the happier for it.  Cheers!

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