From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from opera.rednote.net ([70.84.142.212]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HFK7z-0001ro-00 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:00:40 -0500 Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opera.rednote.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1910c1U032465 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:00:39 GMT Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l1910ckY032463 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:00:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:00:38 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: need help getting fedora 6 to boot with speech Message-ID: <20070209010038.GQ2621@rednote.net> References: <000001c74ba1$035a0ec0$9f4d4840@ck24> <20070208210310.GN2621@rednote.net> <7.0.1.0.2.20070209130324.024323c0@orcon.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20070209130324.024323c0@orcon.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6spk Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:00:40 -0000 I don't quite understand. Can you say more? There is no grub.conf in the installation media, rather an isolinux.cfg. Is that what you mean? If so, how did you specify your serial port there? Marcel Oats writes: > Hi people, it might be worth reinforcing your comments about having > to specify the serial port. I have a Dectalk multivoice (dectalk > external) and although speech starts when the dvd is booted with the > correct syntax, I had to go into grub.conf and manually add the > serial port on the command line, so as the system will start speaking > from the installation. > > Marcel