From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.valkyrie.net ([216.28.214.193]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17nJ4X-0007vw-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 09:22:53 -0400 Received: (qmail 25047 invoked by uid 0); 6 Sep 2002 13:22:54 -0000 Received: from mlbg-usr2-209-222.valkyrie.net (HELO stargate) (216.28.209.222) by mail.valkyrie.net with SMTP; 6 Sep 2002 13:22:54 -0000 Message-ID: <002101c255a9$f2848400$0100a8c0@stargate> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: <20020906052637.1989.95381.Mailman@speech.braille.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: emacs speak and a normal sound card Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:33:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, Emacspeak will work on any soundcard that Linux supports. One quick and durty way to configure and test your sound system is to run sndconfig and run through that dialog box. It will attempt to find your sound device play a wave file, and then a midi file if it finds your midi channel. For hardware issues it will help to have a list of your hardware on hand such as make, moddle, and brand. Start a little note book of what kind of modem you have, what soundcard you have, monitor, and so on. Also flag any hardware device that says winmodem, or windows anything in it's name. Some of that trash is designed specifically for the Windows operating system only. Remember we live in a rather bias world where most computer specialists are ignorant about Linux, and most PC manufacturers won't help you if you put Linux on your computer. So lists such as this one come in handy, and learning to take notes is an emence help down the road. Hth.