speakup, grml and braille blazer

Garrett Klein garrettklein at comcast.net
Mon May 19 21:40:56 EDT 2008


Cody, you just need a db-9 to db-25 converter for the blazer end of the
cable.

Garrett

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 20:07 -0700, Cody Hurst wrote:
> Well I have a db9 null modem cable, but how would I do this  
> configuration? the db9 end will not fit on the blazer and vice versa.  
> More insight on this would greatly be appreciated.
> On May 19, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> 
> > the blazer requires a null modem cable to connect it to the computer  
> > not a
> > straight through serial cable.
> > Regards, Kerry.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cody Hurst" <churst35 at verizon.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca 
> > >
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:03 AM
> > Subject: speakup, grml and braille blazer
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> >   I just realized I could whip up an external synth with a db25
> > serial cable, a converter and a db9 serial cable, however when I boot
> > grml I use this boot command
> >
> > grml speakup_synth=bns, ttyS0 and get no speech. On the blazer's
> > speech config menu I set it from parallel to serial. however I tried
> > starting grml with it on serial and parallel and still no speech. I
> > know this can be done but I just don't know how. I'd like to know what
> > I"m doing wrong here. Thanks for any hep.
> >
> > Cody
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