From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 21690 invoked from network); 7 Jan 1997 02:32:04 -0000 Received: from blinksoft.com (whistler@205.164.108.208) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 1997 02:32:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (whistler@localhost) by blinksoft.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA11928 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 07:28:13 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 07:28:12 -0700 (MST) From: Ken Perry To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: tclx drivers for emacspeak In-Reply-To: <199701070222.SAA03836@igc2.igc.apc.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Double talk would still need a driver in Linux unless you are talking about the double talk serial and the lite talk serial. Ken /whistler On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Other speech cards that do not communicate to the PC over a serial port but > > instead talk over the internal bus, e.g. the Dectalk PC, require a > > device driver that makes the card appear as a serial device to linux. > > This is one solid reason why I would prefer a Doubletalk. I don't know > enough about Linux to know what the Doubletalk would need under Linux, > but the Doubletalk needs no drivers whatsoever under DOS (and in a DOS > VDM under OS/2). It is simply addressed as LPT3. End of configuration. > Simple and tidy. Also much more affordable. > > Janina Sajka, Director > Information Systems Department > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > janina@afb.org > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe >