Speakup and slackware v 11

[Darcy Burnard]

Hi Travis.  I'm using slackware 11.0 with the provided speakup.s  
kernel.  However, I'm using it with the internal doubletalk.  So I  
know that at least speakup works in that kernel, not sure about the  
transport driver though.
Darcy

On 13-Dec-06, at 7:13 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> 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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