debian kernel upgrade

debian kernel upgrade

[Jude DaShiell]

Is it best to be in the stable; or testing release before attempting to go 
from 2.6.12 to 2.6.17?  I've found unstable fails over here when doing an 
upgrade.

external synthrecommendation?

[John Heim]

I bought an external doubletalk a year ago in April. So it's only a year and 
a half old and it appears to hav died. I first started having trouble with 
it when it was still less than a year old. I kind of wish I had sent it back 
when it first started acting up.

I have 2 questions:
1. Is my experience with the doubletalk LT typical? How long do they usually 
last? For $350, I'd expect to get more than a year and a half out of it.

2. Any recommendations for an external synth? Obviously, I want to spend as 
little as possible but I'll spend whatever I have to to get a good synth.
PS: The symptoms are as follows: I turn the doubletalk on, it says 
"doubletalk ready". But it does not speak when used with a machine running 
speakup. I have a tripletalk external synth at workso I know  speakup is 
working.

When I initialize the doubletalk, I often get kernel error messages. But I 
don't think that's particularly meaningful. Probably the ltlk driver just 
doesn't know how to handle it whenit detects a synth but the synth doesn't 
respond properly.

Re: external synthrecommendation?

[Kirk Reiser]

I would recommend just getting your DoubleTalk LT repaired and
upgraded rather than buying a new synth.  You could send it back to RC
Systems or send it here to I.A.M. in London.  Their number is (519)
679-4828 if you want to phone them to find out about cost and time
etc.  If you called Randy and explain to him it was fucked before the
one year was up he might even repair it for nothing.

  Kirk

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Re: external synthrecommendation?

[Gregory Nowak]

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I'm also not familiar with the doubletalk lt, but I'd also find out if
maybe the serial cable going from the pc to the synth went bad. It
doesn't happen often, but I've had to go through 2-3 cables in the ten
years that I've owned my bns, so a bad cable isn't unheard of.

Greg


On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:09:02AM -0800, Shane wrote:
> I'm not familiar with the dtlk but the following should
> apply to most hardware synths.  Are their dip switches or
> some other means by which serial parameters are set, bps,
> data bits, etc etc.  If it says dectalk ready and doesn't
> speech following, it could be as simple as that.  Also,
> with some hardware, when the battery dies and doesn't
> charge, it doesn't allow the synth to work.  I've had this
> happen to several accents and opening the unit and simply
> disconnecting the battery fixes that.
> 
> S
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> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: external synthrecommendation?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi John,

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:44:33AM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> 
> I have 2 questions:
> 1. Is my experience with the doubletalk LT typical? How long do they usually 
> last? For $350, I'd expect to get more than a year and a half out of it.

No, not typical at all. I have been using this external doubletalk for 
about ten years with no problems. The volume control is a little 
scratchy, but if I leave it alone and use the speakup volume commands, 
it is never noticed.

Chuck



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Re: external synthrecommendation?

[Steve Holmes]

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I wish I could get my Accent SA figured out.  It was working great until
I came into work one morning and it was dead.  It says "Accent ready"
like normal when you turn it on but nothing else.  I tried disconnecting
and reconnecting the internal battery, altering or switching cables with
no results.  I haven't done anything with it for some time now but I may
give one of the phone numbers Kirk hs given out recently and way back
when I brought up my problem before.  External synths are worth every
bit of their weight in gold as far as I'm concerned.

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:09:02AM -0800, Shane wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:44:33AM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> > PS: The symptoms are as follows: I turn the doubletalk on, it says 
> > "doubletalk ready". But it does not speak when used with a machine running 
> > speakup. I have a tripletalk external synth at workso I know  speakup is 
> > working.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the dtlk but the following should
> apply to most hardware synths.  Are their dip switches or
> some other means by which serial parameters are set, bps,
> data bits, etc etc.  If it says dectalk ready and doesn't
> speech following, it could be as simple as that.  Also,
> with some hardware, when the battery dies and doesn't
> charge, it doesn't allow the synth to work.  I've had this
> happen to several accents and opening the unit and simply
> disconnecting the battery fixes that.
> 
> S
> -- 
> http://www.cm.nu/~shane/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 

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Re: external synthrecommendation?

[John Heim]

From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
>I would recommend just getting your DoubleTalk LT repaired and
> upgraded rather than buying a new synth.  You could send it back to RC
> Systems or send it here to I.A.M. in London.  Their number is (519)
> 679-4828 if you want to phone them to find out about cost and time
> etc.  If you called Randy and explain to him it was fucked before the
> one year was up he might even repair it for nothing.


He did.  After asking me to run some tests, Randy said i could send it back. 
I just got it back yesterday and it's working again.

Greg Nowak pegged the problem too -- bad serial cable.  I kind of suspected 
that too but the one thing that made me doubt it was that I couldn't get it 
to work by jiggling the cable.  I think the pins inside the molded end were 
bad and that may be why jiggling it didn't help. .

Re: external synthrecommendation?

[Kirk Reiser]

Glad to hear you got it straightened out satisfactorally.  Randy is
usually pretty decent about repairs and the like.

  Kirk

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computer builder

[randy turner]

hi all,

i have found a few places on the internet that will build computers
with the stuff you want in them.
but i thought that i would ask if anyone could recomend a place
before i start calling around.
and while i am asking questions,
does anybody know how close we are to usb access with speakup?
thanks in advance
randy turner