From: "Angelo Sonnesso" <asonnesso@coastalnet.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:56:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <011d01c19aab$9e4212e0$8278f5cd@angeloso> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201061313310.303-100000@hudson.mhonline.net>
I used it in a dos box under win me with ASAP for dos, and it worked just
fine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@mhonline.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f
>
> That is interesting, Greg -
>
> Provox takes extreme measures not to hog the processor, but it
> has still caused problems for me on some systems. Perhaps it
> depends on the synthesizer also. A related reliable failure for
> me has been when booting Linux from a loadlin in DOS. The loadlin
> banner and credits screen rapidly fills the synthesizer buffer
> and keeps it talking during the time the Linux kernel is testing
> for the presence of the synth, and as a result the kernel cannot
> find the synthesizer!!! Another case where the speech has to be
> silenced before letting loadlin execute. Maybe the loadlin screen
> output could be redirected to a null device - I have not tried
> that - but provox also has a command line parameter to shut the
> speech up, so it can be included in a batch file.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > Chuck,
> > I just thought you might like to know that I've used rawrite with 4
disks while provox7 was running and talking, and they all booted and worked
fine. So, I guess there is one exception to the rule (grin).
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:56:16AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > One thing to keep in mind, which I am sure you already know, is
> > > that rawrite is very touchy and needs the undivided attention of
> > > your processor. That means you must disable your speech while
> > > rawrite is executing. If you let your computer talk while rawrite
> > > is executing you are virtually guaranteed to have disk errors in
> > > the resulting floppy.
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Well Linux shows it as a 1.44 MB, and other floppies boot just fine.
I
> > > > think I'm going to try the whole process again with a later version
of
> > > > rawrite and see if that makes any difference.
> > > > thanks for the suggestion, though.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
Dan Murphy
` Saqib Shaikh
` Georgina
` Dan Murphy
` slow booting was: " Gregory Nowak
` Dan Murphy
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Dan Murphy
` Georgina
` Thomas Ward
` Kirk Wood
` Dan Murphy
` Janina Sajka
` Dan Murphy
` Gregory Nowak
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Dan Murphy
` Janina Sajka
` Dan Murphy
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Dan Murphy
` Shaun Oliver
` Dan Murphy
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Dan Murphy
` Gregory Nowak
` Gregory Nowak
` Janina Sajka
` Gregory Nowak
` Janina Sajka
` Thomas Stivers
` Gregory Nowak
` Janina Sajka
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Thanks BTBG
` Thanks Janina Sajka
` Back from the "parted" beyond. (f Shaun Oliver
` Dan Murphy
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Gregory Nowak
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Gregory Nowak
` Angelo Sonnesso [this message]
` Georgina
` Gregory Nowak
` Georgina
` Dan Murphy
` slow booting was: " Gregory Nowak
` Gregory Nowak
` Georgina
` Angelo Sonnesso
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