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[Luke Yelavich]

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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:27:31PM EST, Marvin Rush wrote:
> Have a question does speakup support a deck talk pc2??

Yes, but as far as I have found, the support is alright, but for me at 
least, unstable.

You need to load the firmware onto the card every time you want to use 
it, hense why you can only build the DECtalk PC2 driver as a module, as 
the card cannot be made to talk from first boot.

I found that the firmware loader that comes with the speakup 
distribution didn't work for me. I was able to get the firmware loaded 
onto the card by using the original DEC PC software from the disk in a 
DOSEmu session. Speakup then works with the card, but when cursoring 
around, there is a noticable delay before the DEC speaks. Screen review 
keys are fine however.

If you cursor around too much and try and send too much data to the DEC 
PC too quickly, the card locks up, and makes a sort of clicking noise 
every second or so. You then have to perform a hard reset, as your 
machine is unresponsive.

This is what I found anyway, so your experience may be different. There 
is a possibility that the hardware I am using it with is the cause of 
this problem, but I am not sure.

Jus tfor anybody who is interested, this was with a dual Celeron 466 
system, and I tried it with both a uniprocessor and multiprocessor 
kernel, and was with a much older version of speakup. I really should 
try it again to see whether the same problem  is still present.
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