braille'n speak and linux information request:

[Kirk Reiser]

Hello Charles:  I am wondering if you are giving the speakup
synthesizer parametre on the command line of the boot prompt?  When
you get to the boot prompt you usually type linux speakup_synth=bns.
A lot of the other distributions use different names like knoppix or
grml or whatever but you need to specify the synth on all of them
because they are compiled to support all the speakup synths so you
need to tell the kernel which one you want it to try.  How you
actually get to the boot prompt depends on the boot loader used and
how it is configured.  Many times it will stop at the boot prompt
automatically but if not then you need to tap the shift key either one
will do just after the computer beeps when booting until you get the
boot prompt.

good luck.
  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061