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From: "Erik Heil" <eheil@rcn.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Dec Talk internal cards supported?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:43:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <024901c2699b$ef94d0f0$6701a8c0@6S4X011> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17wRpj-00015VC@gene3.ait.iastate.edu>

Hi there. How would one download the necissary software onto the Dectalk
board?  BC what I was thinking is possibly modify the firmware on the board
so that it doesn't need to be downloaded or sent an init command.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Collins" <collins@gene3.ait.iastate.edu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Dec Talk internal cards supported?


> Hello all.  There are no dectalk internal boards supported to my
> knowledge.  Only the external serial dectalk express and the original
> dectalk external synthesizers are supported.  The problem with the
> internal isa cards is that they have to have software downloaded onto
> the card before they can be used.  Since Speakup is activated and
> initialized almost the first thing after the kernel is loaded and
> initialized, and before the file system is available, there is at
> present no way to have the kernel download the software onto the
> internal dectalk boards.  I believe you can use these boards with emacs
> speak, but I am not familiar with it, and so can not say.  Making these
> dectalk boards usable is on Kirk's to do list, but there are a number of
> things that have to happen first, such as the almost complete rewrite of
> Speakup to make it usable with the 2.2.5 kernels, and the modularization
> of the synthesizer drivers, before a dectalk-pc driver could be written.
>
> Gene
>
> >It is difficult to find computers or have on ebuilt with the isa slots
> >required for the dec pc's.  So $150 might be unrealistic.
> >
> >-- charlie.
>
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Bear in SFO
 ` Adam Myrow
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209291559450.3936-100000@homerun.midsouth.r r.com>
   ` Bear in SFO
 ` ccrawford
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209300823550.27961-100000@localhost.localdo main>
   ` Bear in SFO
     ` Charles Crawford
       ` Gene Collins
         ` Erik Heil [this message]
           ` Patrick Turnage
             ` Jude DaShiell
               ` Geoff Shang
             ` Erik Heil
             ` Adam Myrow
             ` Geoff Shang
               ` shaun_oliver
           ` Igor Gueths
         ` Geoff Shang
         ` Bear in SFO
       ` Bear in SFO
         ` Where do I get Redhat 8? ccrawford
           ` Janina Sajka
           ` Edward L. Barnes
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210020522580.8234-100000@localhost.localdom ain>
           ` Bear in SFO

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