Speakup Boot Diskss for Debian Sarge

[Georgina Joyce]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:41:07AM +0100, Darren Paskell wrote:
> Hi.

OK, try holding the ctrl key and pressing the letter 'u' to clear the line, then type "linux speakup_synth=apolo" if your apollo is not on com 1 or /dev/ttyS0 then add the port to the command line but I've usually got away with it.

HTH

Gena
> 
> I have an Apollo II speech synthesizer which I want to be able to use with 
> Speakup. I have succeeded in getting Speakup to work with it from Slackware 
> 8 and 9 installation media, although I haven't used Speakup for two years or 
> so.  I have however tested the Apollo and its com port connection 
> successfully under Dos and Windows. I have as yet no experience with 
> compiling my own kernel, although this is something I intend to rectify once 
> I have a working Linux system.
> 
> I downloaded the Speakup Net-Install ISO image of Sarge from 
> <http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/>, and burned it to a cd. 
> I've tried supplying
> 
> speakup speakup_synth=apolo
> 
> and
> 
> speakup26 speakup_synth=apolo
> 
> at the CD's boot prompt, but Speakup does not seem to be able to find my 
> Apollo. I have verified that the installer does start after both commands. 
> I've also tried downloading the floppy images from the Debian boot disks 
> area on the Speakup ftp site. However, I still get no speech when supplying 
> the
> 
> linux speakup_synth=apolo
> 
> command at the boot floppy's prompt.
> 
> I have tested the CD and floppy on two computers with the same Apollo 
> connected to the first serial port, with the same result i.e. no speech. I 
> would like to be able to run through a talking installation of Debian. Is 
> this possible, and if so what can I do to debug the problem?
> 
> Thank you very much for any assistance you may be able to offer me.
> 
> Darren 
> 
> 
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