New Debian Install - HELP!

[Erik Heil]

Hi their.  As far as I know, the installer does support Speakup out of the
box.  I can't confirm this, but apparently you're supposed to press tab
before typing the commands to get speakup talking.  As a side note, I did
download an installation immage for Speakup, but I have a Dectalk Express
whereas you apparently have a Speakout synth.  Not even sure if they're
manufactured anymore, but they're good synths nevertheless.  Getting back
to you're point, I could not get the Dectalk express to come up talking
with any of the immages, but this might be related to another issues.

--Erik

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:40:10 -0700
> From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: New Debian Install - HELP!
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> I just downloaded two recent install CD's for Debian Lenny; one from
> June of this year (Beta 2) and a testing image dated today Oct 9th.  I
> have a speakout synth hooked up on ttyS0 and am using it at this very
> moment.  But alas, I cannot get it to work with these Debian boot
> disks.  The command I'm using is
> install speakup.synth=spkout
> I tried this with and without pressing tab first.  In all cases, I get
> no speech.  I saw in the f8.txt that speakup could be used but in
> parentheses, they said graphical installer only so I also tried
> installgui speakup.synth=spkout
> Again, no speach then either.  What could be wrong here? I thought
> these latest CD's would have kernels compatible with Speakup.  Do I
> still have to go out and boot with a dedicated boot disk like Samuel's
> disk?
>
> Thanks for helping.
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