Trying to get a Dell Enspiron Laptop to Talk

[Alex Snow]

For that machine I would probably run GRML since it's text-based.  My 
old latitude cpt (600mhz proc/324mb ram) runs it, so your machine 
should definitely do it.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:52:29PM -0500, Martin 
McCormick wrote:
> 	I am going to download the talking CD images mentioned
> earlier this year on this list and have another go at a laptop I
> have that is really touchy about getting a talking Linux
> installation.
> 
> 	This was my wife's laptop until she got a Mac a couple
> of years ago and it did run Windows XP as well as any system
> runs Windows. It has 256 megs of RAM and a 1-gig processor so it
> is no slouch but it is about 6 years old now.
> 
> 	As luck would have it, the last edition of oralux which
> was out of date 2 years ago came up crowing and what passed for
> the HD installation process did install oralux with speakup
> although most of the bit about enabling speech turned out to be
> incomplete and one needed to kind of kick things along a bit to
> get it all to work but I did succeed.
> 
> 	It is, however, not up gradable and many things dealing
> with peripherals just don't quite work right no matter what one
> does.
> 
> 	I did try the ubuntu live CD with orca and it did find
> the sound card because you can hear the bongo drums but the 256
> megs of RAM are not sufficient to make it all go when booting
> from the live CD so I am hoping that a thinner live CD will be
> the answer.
> 
> 	In my job, I sometimes need to connect a RS-232 port to
> a device that is either partly dead or off-line due to network
> issues. A RS-232 dongle connected to the oralux laptop caused
> that spelling contingency bug to rear its ugly head although one
> could sure receive the data but it is only slightly more fun
> than water boarding. A PCMCIA serial port didn't seem to be
> recognized by kermit so  I am hoping that at least some of these
> problems will go away if the new ISO will work.
> 
> 	Do any of these issues sound familiar to others on the
> list?
> 
> 	Stay tuned for more thrills and spills.
> 
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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