* Speakout and com port installing slackware @ John Gunn ` Raul A. Gallegos ` Joseph Norton 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: John Gunn @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup Hello: I have been doing a lot of reading and listening over and over again to Joseph Norton's tutorial and might actually have a chance in installing Slackware but a few questions. After making the boot disk using speakout where or how do you tell Linux which com port etc? And setting up Lilo I guess the above would apply. Thanks for any suggestions, John ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Speakout and com port installing slackware Speakout and com port installing slackware John Gunn @ ` Raul A. Gallegos ` Tommy Moore ` Joseph Norton 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Raul A. Gallegos @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup Hi John. The best way to accomplish what you want to do is make the boot and root disks. It seems like you have done this already. The lilo is already in the boot disk. When you boot off that disk you will hear the disk spin for a little bit. Here is the lilo prompt. In most cases the speakout will auto load regardless of the serial port you have it set to. There are some cases however where this does not work. What you can do is specify speakup_ser=0 if the speakout is on com1 or speakup_ser=1 if the speakup is on com2. So when the disk stops spinning for that short time you enter at the prompt which will not be talking at this point: linux speakup_ser=x and press enter. If you are still having problems write here or to me and I can help you further. I've installed slackware many times on different machines. --- For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals.. Then something happened, which unleashed the power of our imagination... We learned to talk... --- On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, John Gunn wrote: > Hello: > > I have been doing a lot of reading and listening over and over again to > Joseph Norton's tutorial and might actually have a chance in installing > Slackware but a few questions. After making the boot disk using speakout > where or how do you tell Linux which com port etc? And setting up Lilo I > guess the above would apply. > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Speakout and com port installing slackware ` Raul A. Gallegos @ ` Tommy Moore 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Tommy Moore @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup Hi there Raul. Think John might of been asking what you do after you install lilo on to the hard drive since the installer doesn't know what synth your using. Tommy On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Hi John. The best way to accomplish what you want to do is make the boot > and root disks. It seems like you have done this already. The lilo is > already in the boot disk. When you boot off that disk you will hear the > disk spin for a little bit. Here is the lilo prompt. In most cases the > speakout will auto load regardless of the serial port you have it set to. > There are some cases however where this does not work. What you can do is > specify speakup_ser=0 if the speakout is on com1 or speakup_ser=1 if the > speakup is on com2. So when the disk stops spinning for that short time > you enter at the prompt which will not be talking at this point: linux > speakup_ser=x and press enter. > > If you are still having problems write here or to me and I can help you > further. I've installed slackware many times on different machines. > > --- > For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals.. Then > something happened, which unleashed the power of our imagination... > We learned to talk... > --- > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, John Gunn wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > I have been doing a lot of reading and listening over and over again to > > Joseph Norton's tutorial and might actually have a chance in installing > > Slackware but a few questions. After making the boot disk using speakout > > where or how do you tell Linux which com port etc? And setting up Lilo I > > guess the above would apply. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Speakout and com port installing slackware Speakout and com port installing slackware John Gunn ` Raul A. Gallegos @ ` Joseph Norton ` John Gunn 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Joseph Norton @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup, Speakup Hi John: Speakup may be able to autodetect your synth. If not, read on. Below is a section of the README file under the main slackware directory on booting up Slackware. Note the section just below the example startup screen. This tells you the parameters that should force Speakup to use a different com port. The complete text of this file is at: ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/README 3. Booting Up For The First Time Place your boot disk in the A: drive and reboot your machine. After the disk spins for a few seconds, you should be presented with a screen that looks something like this: -------------------- Welcome to the Slackware Linux (v. 7.1.0) bare.i bootdisk! If you need to pass extra parameters to the kernel, enter them at the prompt below after one of the valid configuration names: ramdisk (to load a rootdisk into memory and boot it), and mount (to boot an existing Linux partition). NOTE: Most hardware is auto-detected without parameters. So, before assuming your system requires parameters, try a few different bootdisks. :^) Here are some examples (and more can be found in the BOOTING file): ramdisk hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq (needed only if probing fails) ramdisk hdx=cdrom (force detection of an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive) where hdx can be any of hda through hdh. Examples: hdc=1050,32,64 hdd=cdrom If you would rather load the root/install disk from your second floppy drive: ramdisk root=/dev/fd1 In a pinch, you can boot your Linux system with a command like: mount root=/dev/hda1 DON'T SWITCH ANY DISKS YET! This prompt is just for entering extra parameters. If you don't need to enter any parameters, hit ENTER to continue. Boot: -------------------- Press Enter when this message appears and you should hear the disk work for about 30 seconds (this time may vary depending on several factors). The Linux kernel is being loaded at this time. After this, Speakup will try to autodetect your speech synthesizer and you should hear your synthesizer start talking and reading the boot messages. If this doesn't happen, it is possible that Speakup wasn't able to detect your synthesizer. This can be due to several problems. One problem I had was that my LiteTalk was on com2 and I have a modem on com1. Speakup didn't get past the modem. If this happens, you can force Speakup to use a certain serial port to try to find the synthesizer on. To do this, reboot the system and at the Boot: prompt, type the word "ramdisk" a space and speakup_ser=X (where X is the Linux serial port number. This is usually derived by subtracting 1 from the DOS comm port number. For example, if your synthesizer was on com2, you would use a command similar to this: ramdisk speakup_ser=1 This will force Speakup to use com2 for your synthesizer. If all goes well, you should hear your synthesizer going through the boot messages. The boot messages are quite lengthy (even for the boot disk), so you may want to silence speech. You do this by pressing the Enter key on the numeric keypad. If all goes well, you should have a message at the bottom of your screen that looks something like this: VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER If you silenced speech with the numpad Enter, you should be able to press 7 on the numeric keypad to read the previous line and you should hear the above message. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Speakout and com port installing slackware ` Joseph Norton @ ` John Gunn 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: John Gunn @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hello Joseph: Okay and thanks to you, Raul, and Tomy for all the information. As I am writing this I am downloading the current directory from slackware and hope it's the right one. Again to you Joseph, very nice job on the tutorial and last week downloade the real audio files and with Cakewalk put them on a couple of cds and sound quality is good. Wish me luck and I am sure I'll be writing later as this project gets going. smile ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Norton" <jnorton@vol.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>; "Speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: Re: Speakout and com port installing slackware > Hi John: > > Speakup may be able to autodetect your synth. If not, read on. > > Below is a section of the README file under the main slackware directory on > booting up Slackware. Note the section just below the example startup > screen. This tells you the parameters that should force Speakup to use a > different com port. The complete text of this file is at: > > ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/README > > 3. Booting Up For The First Time > > Place your boot disk in the A: drive and reboot your machine. After the > disk spins for a few seconds, you should be presented with a screen that > looks something like this: > > -------------------- > Welcome to the Slackware Linux (v. 7.1.0) bare.i bootdisk! > > If you need to pass extra parameters to the kernel, enter them at the prompt > below after one of the valid configuration names: ramdisk (to load a rootdisk > into memory and boot it), and mount (to boot an existing Linux partition). > NOTE: Most hardware is auto-detected without parameters. So, before assuming > your system requires parameters, try a few different bootdisks. :^) > > Here are some examples (and more can be found in the BOOTING file): > ramdisk hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq (needed only if probing fails) > ramdisk hdx=cdrom (force detection of an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive) > where hdx can be any of hda through hdh. Examples: > hdc=1050,32,64 hdd=cdrom > > If you would rather load the root/install disk from your second floppy drive: > ramdisk root=/dev/fd1 > > In a pinch, you can boot your Linux system with a command like: > mount root=/dev/hda1 > > DON'T SWITCH ANY DISKS YET! This prompt is just for entering extra parameters. > If you don't need to enter any parameters, hit ENTER to continue. > > Boot: > -------------------- > > Press Enter when this message appears and you should hear the disk work > for about 30 seconds (this time may vary depending on several > factors). The Linux kernel is being loaded at this time. After this, > Speakup will try to autodetect your speech synthesizer and you should hear > your synthesizer start talking and reading the boot messages. If this > doesn't happen, it is possible that Speakup wasn't able to detect your > synthesizer. This can be due to several problems. One problem I had was > that my LiteTalk was on com2 and I have a modem on com1. Speakup didn't > get past the modem. If this happens, you can force Speakup to use a > certain serial port to try to find the synthesizer on. To do this, reboot > the system and at the Boot: prompt, type the word "ramdisk" a space and > speakup_ser=X (where X is the Linux serial port number. This is usually > derived by subtracting 1 from the DOS comm port number. For example, if > your synthesizer was on com2, you would use a command similar to this: > > ramdisk speakup_ser=1 > > This will force Speakup to use com2 for your synthesizer. If all goes > well, you should hear your synthesizer going through the boot messages. > > The boot messages are quite lengthy (even for the boot disk), so you may > want to silence speech. You do this by pressing the Enter key on the > numeric keypad. > > If all goes well, you should have a message at the bottom of your screen > that looks something like this: > > VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER > > If you silenced speech with the numpad Enter, you should be able to press > 7 on the numeric keypad to read the previous line and you should hear the > above message. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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