Accessible Live CD's?

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

How do I tell which type of serial ports I have? The computer in question 
was built in the summer of 2001. It has a dead RTC battery, and the 
default clock time at powerup is midnight on January 1, 2000.
Jayson


----- Original Message -----
From: acollins at icsmail.net
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
<speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:00:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Accessible Live CD's?

> Hi Jayson.  That depends on whether your machine has isa serial ports,
> or pci serial ports.  If you have isa ports, you're in luck!  If not,
> you're screwed.  The serial drivers for speakup are in desperate need of
> rewriting, but noone with the expertise has come along to take up the
> job.  Sorry about that, it's just the way things are.
> 
> Gene Collins
> 
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Slightly off-thread, as I'm still looking for a good distro to install. 
> >Are the days of hardware synths on serial ports over? My extra computer 
> >has two serial ports, and I have a perfectly good DECtalk Express. I 
> >don't need a GUI, I'm used to the Linux command line.
> >Thanks,
> >Jayson
> >
> >On 3/10/2014 11:28 PM, Kyle wrote:
> >> You can try the TalkingArch live CD at
> >> http://talkingarch.tk/
> >> It usually comes up at a decent volume, and will allow you to choose
> >> which sound card or headset you want at boot time via a voice recording
> >> and a beep. You can install packages on-the-fly, just like in most 
other
> >> systems, so you can install the ftp package for one-time use as soon as
> >> you get a prompt. You would install it like
> >>
> >> pacman -Sy <package>
> >>
> >> in this case. There is also the #talkingarch IRC channel on Freenode if
> >> you need help in realtime. Hope this helps.
> >> ~Kyle
> >> http://kyle.tk/
> >
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