Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards

["Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@aim.com>]

Yes I agree this really is an issue. For some odd reason the Asus system 
board I have recently bought seems to have the serial port controller built 
in (Windows shows a serial port device in device manager for COM1) but Asus 
didn't feel the need to either provide the actual port or the pin header so 
I could connect a port to the header should I need it.

OK there are a few boards still built with serial ports, but this limits the 
choice and so if you want certain features you may just have to choose a 
system with no serial port. So having support for a serial adapter (either 
USB or PCI/PCIE) would be very useful.

Michael Whapples
-----Original Message----- 
From: D. Curtis Willoughby
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:26 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards

This is getting to be a big problem!

I have a new computer without a serial port.  To use a hardware
synthasizer like a Doubletalk LT I must use a USB to serial
adapter or a PCI-E card.  This computer does not have PCI slot(s).
If this combination of "cannot do" restrictions is not fixed,
serial hardware synthesizers are doomed to become obsolete.

I guess there are a few USB synthesizers, and software speach is
still well not wonderful.  I have not been able to establish
whether the few PCI-E cards can manage IRQs and I/O addresses
so they are treated like internal serial ports, but I suspect
they cannot.  Is it not possible to modify speakup so that it
can use any serial port on the machine, rather than just ttyS0
and ttyS1?  Would you developers please look at a solution for
this one?  Please!

D. Curtis Willoughby

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> Nope, Speakup in now way supports pci serial cards.
>
> >Hello,
> >I know that speakup cannot work with synths connected through a USB to 
> >serial
> adapter, however I would like to confirm whether speakup can use serial 
> ports p
> rovided by a PCI-express or PCI serial adapter card? I am most interested 
> in th
> e PCI-Express adapter cards.
> >
> >Michael Whapples
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