Getting speakup talking on the Ssystem Rescue CD

[Kerry Hoath]

Lots of stuff deleted.
sometimes the auto-probe of the transport fails; and you need to force it.
this is especially true on kernels with lapic enabled and machines that have 
an io-apic.

that mumbo jumbo doesn't really matter; try the following:
linux speakup_synth=txprt speakup_ser=0

This might force the probe.
speakup_ser takes a zero-based serial port, where 0 is com1, and if my 
ancient reading of the sources tells me the ports are at base 0x3f8 0x2f8 
0x3e8 0x2e8 and interrupts are not used.

Note if using a newer speakup you'll need speakup.synth and possibly 
speakup.ser;
I haven't dabbled in the git logs to check this.
Regards, Kerry.