Speakup and slackware v 11

[Travis Siegel]

The serial port works just fine, because I can use my transtype in  
terminal mode, and talk to the linux box just fine via the serial  
port, it's only the speakup that doesn't behave properly.

When speakup failed to work, I activated the serial port (com1) and  
then was able to use terminal mode to login to the linux shell.
So, yes, the serial port works, and yes, it's ttys0, and no, no matter  
what I do, speakup doesn't speak via the transport driver.
I've used speakup before with transtypes, transports, and even the  
stand-alone device Artic had called the spirit.  They all worked just  
fine.  However, with this setup, I can't get the transport driver to  
do anything at all.
I'm thinking perhaps I'll recompile the kernel, and try again, in case  
it's the provided speakup.s that's a problem, unless someone else can  
confirm the speakup kernel works properly with this release.
On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:57 PM, randy turner wrote:

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> i had a simular problem with my old litetalk but it would start  
> speaking
> after a minute of waiting.
> just to see if it will work you might want to try the bns driver
> how old is your transport?
> can you get it to work in just plane dos?
> you might have someone run the command dmesg
> to see if linux shows to have a com1 port
> if it does it will showup as ttyS0
> com2 showsup as ttyS1
> another question is, do you have to load
> anything before speakup before the transport will work?
> i don't have a transport so i am assuming that it is just like a  
> doubletalk
> as far as what to load first.
> i have read the speakup doc and it appears that it should work
> if you have a standard serial port built on to the mother board
> things should work out ok
> it might not work out if you are using a pci serial card.
> so next step is to tell me if you have a device ttyS0
> and we can go from there.
> randy turner
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