Dectalk express with speakup as modules?

[Zachary Kline]

Hi William,
    Thanks for the quick response.  I'll just wait for the change: software 
speech is workable for the present.
Best,
Zack.
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From: "William Hubbs" <williamh at gentoo.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Dectalk express with speakup as modules?


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> Hi Zack,
>
> since there have been several changes lately, I am planning on doing a
> snapshot and a version bump on gentoo in the next day or so to pick them
> up.  I will be also working on one more change -- namely migrating the
> ser= parameter to the drivers instead of it being a parameter for the
> speakup module itself.  I'll probably put this in place before I do the
> version bump.
>
>
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:13:54PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     In getting back into Gentoo lately, I've been using the "official"
>> method of using Speakup with my kernel, namely compiling it as modules
>> outside the kernel tree.
>>     I have a Dectalk Express, or rather Dectalk USB with a serial cable, 
>> and
>> was wondering how to go about specifying it and its port in the
>> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file.
>>     I always seem to get a probe failure with this unit, for some reason. 
>> I
>> know that in the latest Speakup git tree there isn't any probing for an
>> Express at all, as I remember.
>> Any help with this earlier version?  Or might it be best for me to just
>> switch to maintaining Speakup myself?
>> Thanks,
>> Zack.
>>
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> - -- 
> William Hubbs
> gentoo accessibility team lead
> williamh at gentoo.org
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