getting started with linux

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

Thanks for all the help.
Can someone tell me if this will work:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/IBM-INTEL-2-0G-256MB-13GB-CDROM-17inCRT-KB-MOUSE_W0QQitemZ190146837530QQihZ009QQcategoryZ111448QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Also the guy said the following about the soundcard.
"Its a sound MAX ADI sound card, go to the ibm website and enter 
6790-2GA in the search field. YOu will find all the info on the system. 
I had a quick look
but couldn't find any ref to linux drivers.
"
I looked at the website Doug said but I couldn't find it. Could someone 
please have another look for me because I am sure I have missed something.

Thanks,

--
Daniel Dalton

John Heim wrote:
> Most distros (fedora, debian, etc) will configure your sound card when you 
> install  linux.  In fact, if you swap out the sound card, sound should be 
> automatically be reconfigured. If it doesn't work, get back to us and we'll 
> help you.
>
> The answer to your second question depends on which distro you are using. If 
> you are using debian or grml, you can use the simple instructions on my web 
> site for setting up software speech. See:
> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/#sftsynth
>
> There are  more complete instructions here:
> http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd-up/speechd-up_1.html
>
> The second page explains how to download and compile speechd-up. But I have 
> created  a debian deb file that you can use if you have installed debian. 
> That makes it a lot easier to get software speech working.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Dalton" <daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:51 AM
> Subject: Re: getting started with linux
>
>
>   
>> Hi,
>> Just a couple more questions:
>> How do I setup the soundcard so I here sound through it once I have
>> installed linux?
>> Also will I have to download a linux distribution and install that. Then
>> install speakup? When speakup is working can I get it to talk through my
>> speakers? If so what synth would it use. Like jaws can talk through my
>> speakers can speakup do this or do I need a hardware synth?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Dalton
>>
>>
>> John Heim wrote:
>>     
>>> If you miss out on that machine, and need to bid on another one, if I 
>>> were
>>> you, I wouldn't worry too much about it not being compatible with linux. 
>>> Any
>>> PC that is a year old or older  is probably going to work. It's mostly 
>>> very
>>> new hardware that isn't supported -- yet.
>>>
>>> I guess it would be a huge bummer to get a machine and have it turn out 
>>> to
>>> be one of the very few that is not supported. But you're probably more
>>> likely to get a defective machine off ebay than you are to get one that 
>>> has
>>> an unsupported sound card.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Daniel Dalton" <daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:11 AM
>>> Subject: Re: getting started with linux
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the help. I got a reply from the guy that was selling
>>>> that pc I was looking at. He said the following:
>>>> "it is intel 815 chipset has agp slot and intel onboard sound drives at
>>>> google search " dell support" xp has drivers"
>>>>
>>>> So is this going to work with linux and speakup?
>>>> I don't know much about this so I don't think I will be able to find it
>>>> on the site with the supported cards.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway if anyone can get back to me I would greatly appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Daniel Dalton
>>>>
>>>>
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