re: installing debian with speakup

re: installing debian with speakup

[Tyler Spivey]

if you are using a dectalk express, the synth keyword is:
dectlk
i may be wrong about that, but i'm pretty certain that decext
is for the dectalk external (the older model from the late 1980s).

Re: Installing Debian with Speakup

[ADFM]

Thank you for the assistance. I ran:

cd linux
dosutils\loadlin linux root=/dev/ram speakup_synth=dectlk initrd=images-1.44/root.bin disksize=1.44

And The DECTalk Express on COM1 spoke. I started to go through the installation and got confused with partitioning the HD. I am running Windows 98 SE on my 14.2GB drive C and would like to install debian on my 14.2GB drive D. Do I need a swap partition? how big and would it be a new partition on my Maxtor HD? Yes I am planniing to have Lilo run and ask me to choose between Linux and Windows . Any help would be much appreciated.

Angus MacKinnon
Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
MAILTO:flodabay@hotmail.com
Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
http://www.choroideremia.org

Installing Debian with Speakup

[ADFM]

I have debian-2.2r2-speakup.iso In my c:\linux directory. Drive C and D are both 14.2 GB and formated with fdisk from Windows 98 SE. I have the following batch file in the root directory of drive C.

cd linux
cd dosutils
loadlin linux root=/dev/hda1 speakup_synth=decext initrd=images-1.44\root.bin disksize=1.44



How come there is no speech? Have I got the right syntax and file structure? I am trying to install Debian and Speakup to my drive D. I used rawwritewin to create a bootup and rescue disk. I used root.bin and rescue.bin from images-1.44\idepci.

Angus MacKinnon
Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
MAILTO:flodabay@hotmail.com
Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
http://www.choroideremia.org

Re: Installing Debian with Speakup

[ADFM]

I have debian-2.2r2-speakup.iso In my c:\linux directory. Drive C and D are both 14.2 GB and formated with fdisk from Windows 98 SE. I have the following batch file in the root directory of drive C.

cd linux
cd dosutils
loadlin linux root=/dev/hda1 speakup_synth=decext initrd=images-1.44\root.bin disksize=1.44



How come there is no speech? Have I got the right syntax and file structure?

Angus MacKinnon
Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
MAILTO:flodabay@hotmail.com
Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
http://www.choroideremia.org

Re: Installing Debian with Speakup

[ADFM]

I now have the following and still no speech.

cd linux
dosutils\loadlin linux speakup_synth=dtlk root=/dev/ram initrd=images-1.44/root.bin disksize=1.44

Angus MacKinnon
Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
MAILTO:flodabay@hotmail.com
Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
http://www.choroideremia.org

Re: Installing Debian with Speakup

[Shaun Oliver]

*SNIP*
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, ADFM wrote:

> I now have the following and still no speech.
>
> cd linux
> dosutils\loadlin linux speakup_synth=dtlk root=/dev/ram initrd=images-1.44/root.bin disksize=1.44
ok. the abreviation for yer synth is decext
not dtlk. that's for doubletalk

Re: Installing Debian with Speakup

[ADFM]

I now have:


c d linux
 dosutils\loadlin linux speakup_synth=decext root=/dev/ram initrd=images-1.44/root.bin disksize=1.44

And still no speech. When I run the file I get a message to insert a floppy. After pressing enter I see Tucks the Penguin with a page full of text and after about a few seconds I get a pop up window.

Angus MacKinnon
Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
MAILTO:flodabay@hotmail.com
Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
http://www.choroideremia.org

Re: Installing Debian with Speakup

[Edward L. Barnes]

Yes, but do you still have an unburned iso on your system and is that 
what your trying to work from or have you remideed that part.
On Fri, 2 Aug 
2002, ADFM wrote:

> I now have the following and still no speech.
> 
> cd linux
> dosutils\loadlin linux speakup_synth=dtlk root=/dev/ram initrd=images-1.44/root.bin disksize=1.44
> 
> Angus MacKinnon
> Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
> Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
> MAILTO:flodabay@hotmail.com
> Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
> http://www.choroideremia.org
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Installing Debian with Speakup

[ADFM]

In my c:\linux directory I have :debian-2.2r2-speakup.iso" and the following in a batch file in my root directory:

cd linux
dosutils\loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=images-1.44/root.bin disksize=1.44

I can see something running when I power right down and choose "Command prompt only" from the safe menu. However, my July 1995 DECTalk Express on COM1 is silent. Why is the DECTalk Express not speaking?

Angus MacKinnon
Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
MAILTO:flodabay@hotmail.com
Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
http://www.choroideremia.org

Re: Installing Debian with Speakup

[Edward L. Barnes]

Hi Angus, I'm far from a Debian expert having only ever logged into a 
debian system once or twice in my life and having never installed that 
version of Linux here, however; this one sounds simple, you have the iso 
in a directory on your c: hard drive partition (your windows partition) 
and it's not burned or anything in rference to burning it to a cd so how 
do you expect to install it.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it the case that when 
installing Debian from an har disk install isn't what one needs the 
contents of the /current dir or dirs on the cds.
Hth and good luck.

Ed Barnes ebarnes@enigma2.cjb.net 

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, ADFM 
wrote:

> In my c:\linux directory I have :debian-2.2r2-speakup.iso" and the following in a batch file in my root directory:
> 
> cd linux
> dosutils\loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=images-1.44/root.bin disksize=1.44
> 
> I can see something running when I power right down and choose "Command prompt only" from the safe menu. However, my July 1995 DECTalk Express on COM1 is silent. Why is the DECTalk Express not speaking?
> 
> Angus MacKinnon
> Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
> Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
> MAILTO:flodabay@hotmail.com
> Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
> http://www.choroideremia.org
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

installing debian with speakup

[brian Moore]

greetings all. does anyone have a 2.2.17 kernel with speakup built-in to
it.  I downloaded and created the three cds of the debian 2.2 release which
is using the kernel 2.2.17.  However, the disks on the speakup site are for
2.2.14.  this causes all sorts of errors with modules when installting from
my 2.2.17 cds.  I also tried installing with linux console=ttyS0 and
figured I could build a kernel with speakup in it later but it appears that
the supplied kernels on the debian cds don't have support for a console on
a serial port.

as you can tell, I am fairly new at all this so any ideas would be
appreciated.
 thanks.  brian.

Re: installing debian with speakup

[Tommy Moore]

Yeah. I have the boot floppies for thatrelease. Gona talk to Kirk about sending them up to bumpy in a little bit here after I read the mail.
hehe.

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:52:00AM -0400, brian Moore wrote:
> greetings all. does anyone have a 2.2.17 kernel with speakup built-in to
> it.  I downloaded and created the three cds of the debian 2.2 release which
> is using the kernel 2.2.17.  However, the disks on the speakup site are for
> 2.2.14.  this causes all sorts of errors with modules when installting from
> my 2.2.17 cds.  I also tried installing with linux console=ttyS0 and
> figured I could build a kernel with speakup in it later but it appears that
> the supplied kernels on the debian cds don't have support for a console on
> a serial port.
> 
> as you can tell, I am fairly new at all this so any ideas would be
> appreciated.
>  thanks.  brian.
> 
> 
> 
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> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: installing debian with speakup

[Brent Harding]

No wonder I had problems installing from the base system of debian. I
downloaded the base drivers and disks. I bet the disks were for 2.2.14 and
the base/drivers were 2.2.17, so I just compiled up a 2.2.15 kernel and
it's modules.
At 07:52 AM 8/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>greetings all. does anyone have a 2.2.17 kernel with speakup built-in to
>it.  I downloaded and created the three cds of the debian 2.2 release which
>is using the kernel 2.2.17.  However, the disks on the speakup site are for
>2.2.14.  this causes all sorts of errors with modules when installting from
>my 2.2.17 cds.  I also tried installing with linux console=ttyS0 and
>figured I could build a kernel with speakup in it later but it appears that
>the supplied kernels on the debian cds don't have support for a console on
>a serial port.
>
>as you can tell, I am fairly new at all this so any ideas would be
>appreciated.
> thanks.  brian.
>
>
>
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>
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