laptops with serial ports

[John Heim]

I couldn't get grml 0.7 to speak with a doubletalk LE on a dell 620. But 
0.6 worked fine.  Lots of other things didn't work in 0.6 because of 
marginal support in 0.6 for some of the new hardware in dell's 620s.


I'm really in a fix here,If I have to install Windows on one of these 
620s I don't think I could do it. I've been able to install linux via a 
serial console But I haven't found a live CD that works.
  I either have no speech or the drivers are too old.

Alex Snow wrote:
> I've had nothing but trouble with grml...booted it up with software 
> speech on my old dell laptop and another slightly newer inspiron and 
> the sound drivers were pretty much broken (speech worked, but every 
> few words I'd hear a loud crackling noise).  Also tried booting it on 
> a compaq proliant and got a kernel panic saying htere was no root 
> device.  Booting it up on my athlon box gave no speech at all even 
> though both the onboard sound and second pci soundcard are supported 
> by linux.
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:50:14PM +0100, Michael Whapples 
> wrote:
>> The messages I read on this list before about GRML seemed to say that GRML 
>> contains software speech, so the actual installation is spoken using 
>> software speech (if you are installing a distro with it). Admittedly if you 
>> want something that automatically provides software speech without needing 
>> to issue any bash commands, then oralux is the one, as GRML you need to 
>> start speechd-up as I remember. Suppose if you felt like it, you could 
>> modify GRML to contain a script to start speechd-up though.
>>
>> From
>> Michael Whapples
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Dart Vader" <ak47.ataka at gmail.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
>>
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Michael Whapples <mikster4 at msn.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> GRML can be found at www.grml.org
>>> Shame on me. I should guess it or at least try.
>>> Thanx a lot, Michael.
>>>
>>>> Another project that is a bootable CD version of linux with software
>>>> speech output is oralux at www.oralux.org but I think their aims are
>>>> slightly different, to simplify linux for the newby.
>>> My first steps were with this distro. Although it offers to do
>>> knoppix-like installation, I slightly modified an installation script
>>> and did debian-like installation. But this installation is not very true
>>> installation, it better looks like simple copying of working system. But
>>> I believe, it is the only way to do the linux installation using
>>> software speech.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your attention.
>>> WBR, Roman
>>> out
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't 
>>> think
>>> that this is coincidence.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>> From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dart Vader"
>>>> <ak47.ataka at gmail.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for
>>>> Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:45 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
>>>
>>>>>  Hi, Michael.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you, please, tell the url, where I can read (download image)
>>>>> about GRML or similar things.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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