From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rhombus.bright.net ([205.212.123.75]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15x8xR-00047e-00 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:31:41 -0400 Received: from enterprise (woos-max1-cs-26.dial.bright.net [209.143.18.45]) by rhombus.bright.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id f9QFVedx015511 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:31:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <007d01c15e34$6bed2ae0$2d128fd1@enterprise> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011026163805.009e6440@mail> Subject: Re: help for a newbie Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:39:36 -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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 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, 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" To: 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup