Re: Getting Apollo II to work

Re: Getting Apollo II to work

[Ernst-Dieter Wedekind]

Hi Kirk, I didn't put it very clearly: I compiled Apollo as a normal synth
and softsynth as a module as there was no other choice for this. The only
messages I found concerning Speakup were that Speakup V.2.00 or something
was initialized and that /dev/synth with nodes MAJOR 10 and MINOR 25 were
initialized. I didn't find anything about probing for synths. When the
bootdisk was ready I entered the parameters "mount root=/dev/hda3 ro
speakup_synth=apolo" and got, as I already mentioned, no speech output.

Ernst

Re: Getting Apollo II to work

[Gregory Nowak]

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When you were doing make config, or make menuconfig while compiling
your kernel, there should be a prompt at the end of the speakup
section, which asks you to enter the 4-6 character keyword for your synth, to
use as the default. By default, the keyword is none. Did you change it
to say "apolo" in your case, instead of none? 

BTW, that config prompt should say 3-6 character keyword, since bns is
a 3 letter keyword.

Greg


On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:39:21PM +0200, Ernst-Dieter Wedekind wrote:
> Hi Kirk, I didn't put it very clearly: I compiled Apollo as a normal synth
> and softsynth as a module as there was no other choice for this. The only
> messages I found concerning Speakup were that Speakup V.2.00 or something
> was initialized and that /dev/synth with nodes MAJOR 10 and MINOR 25 were
> initialized. I didn't find anything about probing for synths. When the
> bootdisk was ready I entered the parameters "mount root=/dev/hda3 ro
> speakup_synth=apolo" and got, as I already mentioned, no speech output.
> 
> Ernst
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Re: Getting Apollo II to work

[Kirk Reiser]

Okay Ernst thanks.  I concur with Greg it looks like you may not have
specified the apolo as your default synth when configuring the
kernel.  You should still be able to load the synth at the lilo boot
prompt or in your lilo.conf file with an append line to get it to come
up probing for the apolo.  You can also load it after logging in with
the echo apolo >/proc/speakup/synth_name command although it would
probably be better to do it in lilo or just reconfigure the kernel and
recompile.  It shouldn't take very long to do considering you
basically already have everything compiled.

After the speakup version 2.0. whatever you should see a probing for
apolo message indicating that it is attempting to find the Apolo.

good luck.
  Kirk

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Re: Getting Apollo II to work

[Ernst-Dieter Wedekind]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> When you were doing make config, or make menuconfig while compiling
> your kernel, there should be a prompt at the end of the speakup
> section, which asks you to enter the 4-6 character keyword for your synth, to
> use as the default. By default, the keyword is none. Did you change it
> to say "apolo" in your case, instead of none?
>
> BTW, that config prompt should say 3-6 character keyword, since bns is
> a 3 letter keyword.
>
Yes I did. Sorry I forgot to mention that!

Ernst






















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Re: Getting Apollo II to work

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Hi,

      Originally, the keyword for the Apollo synth was apolo, but I think 
it was finally fixed.  Try: speakup_synth=apollo, That's with 2 L's.

           HTH.


-- 
Bill in Denver

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ernst-Dieter Wedekind wrote:

> Hi Kirk, I didn't put it very clearly: I compiled Apollo as a normal synth
> and softsynth as a module as there was no other choice for this. The only
> messages I found concerning Speakup were that Speakup V.2.00 or something
> was initialized and that /dev/synth with nodes MAJOR 10 and MINOR 25 were
> initialized. I didn't find anything about probing for synths. When the
> bootdisk was ready I entered the parameters "mount root=/dev/hda3 ro
> speakup_synth=apolo" and got, as I already mentioned, no speech output.
>
> Ernst
>
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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apollo 2 issue

[Darragh]

Hello,
I've noticed that when typing or reading a capital letter the tone of the apollo increases.  Any ideas why?
Darragh

speakup still doesn't start at boot up

[Darragh]

Hello,

Even after following the instructions precisely on the speakup howto speakup still doesn't speak at boot up.  It works fine when I
type modprobe speakup_apollo though.



Darragh

Re: apollo 2 issue

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

That is so that you know that it is a capital letter.
Works quite well.

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Darragh wrote:

> Hello,
> I've noticed that when typing or reading a capital letter the tone of the apollo increases.  Any ideas why?
> Darragh
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Re: apollo 2 issue

[Darragh]

sorry, my fault, I should have been more specific.  the tone increases but stays that way. I.E. it doesn't return to the default
tone when you read anything else.
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Subject: Re: apollo 2 issue


That is so that you know that it is a capital letter.
Works quite well.

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Darragh wrote:

> Hello,
> I've noticed that when typing or reading a capital letter the tone of the apollo increases.  Any ideas why?
> Darragh
>
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