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From: "Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@kc.rr.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
	<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Subject: RE: Slack 13.37 and 14.0
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 13:43:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00CE93B930F145C99EDFFDA2407E2ACC@mdlynn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18019.1368635999@ccs.covici.com>

I don't know about "most mainboards," but none of those I have looked at in
the flesh over the past 12-months or so have had any serial connections at
all.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of
covici@ccs.covici.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:40 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Slack 13.37 and 14.0

Most motherboards have the serial headers, just not brought out to the back.

Tony Baechler <tony@baechler.net> wrote:

> No, you're still not understanding.  Debian Wheezy has the 3.2 kernel, 
> so no serial support.  That's why I suggested installing Squeeze and 
> upgrading to Wheezy.  That way you can run the 2.6.32 kernel with 
> newer packages and still have serial support.  No, you won't get most 
> boot messages with software speech because it takes a while for sound 
> drivers to load.  I have both kernels installed here so I can get 
> hardware speech if my system becomes unbootable.  I had no problem 
> finding a motherboard with a serial port last August.  You have to 
> look for server motherboards, but they're not that hard to find.
> 
> On 5/15/2013 7:15 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote:
> > Thanks for the info on the 3.2 kernels. That, then, is the issue.
> > 
> > RE Debian: Looks like there has been a new release since I last 
> > looked. Grabbed the Wheezy release and installed on a test system 
> > last night. Software synth works fine on that machine. No serial 
> > port on this system to test with DEC. I will see how it does on the 
> > main server later this week when I can have it down for an extended 
> > period. I can live with a software synth as long as I can get boot 
> > messages, and serial ports are getting harder to find on modern
mainboards.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Mitchell D. Lynn
 ` Tony Baechler
   ` Mitchell D. Lynn
     ` Tony Baechler
       ` Mitchell D. Lynn
         ` Tony Baechler
           ` Mitchell D. Lynn
           ` covici
             ` Mitchell D. Lynn [this message]
               ` covici
                 ` Mitchell D. Lynn
                   ` Onboard serial ports Tony Baechler
                     ` John G. Heim
                       ` Mitchell D. Lynn
                       ` Jason White
                   ` Slack 13.37 and 14.0 John G. Heim
             ` Adam Myrow
               ` Mitchell D. Lynn
               ` Serial ports with 32-bit vs. 64-bit processors Tony Baechler
                 ` Kitty Litter
                 ` John G. Heim
                   ` Ryan Hutchings
                     ` John G. Heim
                   ` Tony Baechler
                 ` covici
                   ` Keith Wessel
           ` Slack 13.37 and 14.0 Gregory Nowak
             ` Tony Baechler
   ` Ryan Hutchings
     ` Debian Squeeze CDs Tony Baechler
       ` Ryan Hutchings
   ` Slack 13.37 and 14.0 Alex Snow
     ` Mitchell D. Lynn

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