GRML 1.0 QUERY

[David Harvey]

Hello,

In class this morning I tried the RC of GRML 1.0.

However when I typed
grml speakup_synth=dectlk
my synth failed to speak.  All cables were connected correctly.

Thanks

David Harvey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13 at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible?


> got it. It works awesome now, hdc now mounted in /personal/media/music, 
> with
> all my music in the root which is about 9+gb. Took quite a load off of the
> /hdb drive.
> Thanks,
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug at proficio.ca>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:17 PM
> Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible?
>
>
>> In the BIOS settings, there should be four settings, one master and
>> one slave for each controller. If your BIOS allows for an AUTO
>> setting try that and it should auto-detect the drives. On most of the
>> older BIOS there was an auto detect function you could invoke
>> by pressing a key like F8 or similar and it would detect the drives
>> and set the BIOS properly, newer BIOS can auto-detect at boot
>> time. If you know which slave slot is for CD and if there is a CD
>> setting in the BIOS, use that setting, and check to make sure the
>> CD drive is jumpered as slave.
>>
>> If drives are not showing up then usually they are either not
>> jumpered correctly or the BIOS setting is not correct. There are
>> two other possible pains with old BIOS, one is limitation of
>> drive size, some older BIOS may not support the full capacity.
>> Some drives have a special jumper setting for this which will
>> limit the drive size for older BIOS. And in some rare cases
>> you need to manually set the capacity, number of cylinders
>> and tracks, although its becoming rare that you'd have to do
>> that anymore.
>>
>> The most important thing is making sure the drives are
>> jumpered correctly as one master and one slave on each
>> cable and making sure the drive is enabled in BIOS, if
>> there is an auto setting in BIOS try that, if the drive is
>> still not working, the drive will be labeled with info for
>> cylinder/track/capacity and you can set them manually.
>> Hopefully you will not need to do this.
>>
>>   -- Doug
>>
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