From: "Thomas Ward" <tward@bright.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: help for a newbie
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:39:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007d01c15e34$6bed2ae0$2d128fd1@enterprise> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011026163805.009e6440@mail>
Hi, well, the old boot disk system no longer applies to speakup. You see in
a few cvs versions back speakup was updated to be able to switch synths via
the boot prompt.
For example when I want to load speakup to run a Red Hat 7.2 setup I type:
linux text speakup_synth=dectlk
Then, my dectalk express is loaded. I also could have typed:
linux text speakup_synth=bns
Then, I would have been able to load my bns or braille blazer as a synth.
So basically, get the standard speakup enabled boot disk, and by passing
some commands to the kernel via the boot prompt you can load any of the
supported synths even a null synth if you do not want speech.
I mostly have used Slackware and Red Hat, but I am sure the same idea
applies to Debian.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Keogh" <dwkeogh@optushome.com.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:47 AM
Subject: help for a newbie
> Ok guys after a bit of mucking around I've decided to go the the Debian
> linux distribution but I've run into a pretty major problem. I have no
> idea what to download to get speakup up and running. I've tried using
Matt
> Campbell's look at linux series to get started but obviously since that
was
> made there's been a few changes to the linux-speakup.org ftp site and
> nothing seems to be documented.
>
> So my question is what do I download. There's nothing on that site to
> indicate which boot disk is for a doubletalk internal or any other
> synthesizer. They all seem to have really helpfull names like Base-10.bin
> or something incredibly useless like that. The kernal files Matt was
> talking about don't seem to exist in any form. When I try to get to the
> disks using the web site I get a 404 error because it's linking to a non
> existant index file.
> If anyone can help me with this I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Danny Keogh
> ICQ: 72503517
> mailto:dwkeogh@optushome.com.au
>
>
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