Speakup and serial adapter cards

[John Heim]

Oh, sorry, I misread your message.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards


>I must have been unfortunate in finding an Asus board with no serial port, 
>checking the manual and just from poking about the board I cannot find a 
>header. While I'm not one for changing computer parts frequently, I have to 
>say I am not so impressed with this particular board and so if I do change 
>it anytime soon I will pay particular attention to whether the next board 
>has the serial port or header for one.
>
> Michael Whapples
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: John Heim
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:23 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards
>
> Like I said in another message, the cable you need is about $4.  One end 
> has
> a female square plug that goes into the motherboard and the other has a 
> DB9
> connector attached to a plate that fits into the opening for an expansion
> slot.
> If you hadn't already said you have a serail port header on your Asus
> motherboard, I would have told you that you probably have it. I am not 
> sure
> Asus makes a motherboard with no serial port at all. But most of them do 
> not
> have the external DB9 connector.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards
>
>
>> Yes I agree this really is an issue. For some odd reason the Asus system 
>> board I have recently bought seems to have the serial port controller 
>> built in (Windows shows a serial port device in device manager for COM1) 
>> but Asus didn't feel the need to either provide the actual port or the 
>> pin header so I could connect a port to the header should I need it.
>>
>> OK there are a few boards still built with serial ports, but this limits 
>> the choice and so if you want certain features you may just have to 
>> choose a system with no serial port. So having support for a serial 
>> adapter (either USB or PCI/PCIE) would be very useful.
>>
>> Michael Whapples
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: D. Curtis Willoughby
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:26 AM
>> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards
>>
>> This is getting to be a big problem!
>>
>> I have a new computer without a serial port.  To use a hardware
>> synthasizer like a Doubletalk LT I must use a USB to serial
>> adapter or a PCI-E card.  This computer does not have PCI slot(s).
>> If this combination of "cannot do" restrictions is not fixed,
>> serial hardware synthesizers are doomed to become obsolete.
>>
>> I guess there are a few USB synthesizers, and software speach is
>> still well not wonderful.  I have not been able to establish
>> whether the few PCI-E cards can manage IRQs and I/O addresses
>> so they are treated like internal serial ports, but I suspect
>> they cannot.  Is it not possible to modify speakup so that it
>> can use any serial port on the machine, rather than just ttyS0
>> and ttyS1?  Would you developers please look at a solution for
>> this one?  Please!
>>
>> D. Curtis Willoughby
>>
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>>> Nope, Speakup in now way supports pci serial cards.
>>>
>>> >Hello,
>>> >I know that speakup cannot work with synths connected through a USB to 
>>> >serial
>>> adapter, however I would like to confirm whether speakup can use serial 
>>> ports p
>>> rovided by a PCI-express or PCI serial adapter card? I am most 
>>> interested in th
>>> e PCI-Express adapter cards.
>>> >
>>> >Michael Whapples
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