From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1G3wRT-0007wG-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:57:27 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90913741B0 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:56:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28585-18 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:56:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (lcyoung.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.90]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A038741A4 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:56:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [144.92.166.75] (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.75]) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E88100451 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:56:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44C0EB32.9050807@math.wisc.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:56:50 -0500 From: John Heim Organization: UW-Madison Department of Mathematics User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports References: <87wtabxx0w.fsf@gmail.com> <20060718191731.GA32000@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20060718191731.GA32000@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jheim@math.wisc.edu, "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, 21 Jul 2006 14:57:27 -0000 I couldn't get grml 0.7 to speak with a doubletalk LE on a dell 620. But 0.6 worked fine. Lots of other things didn't work in 0.6 because of marginal support in 0.6 for some of the new hardware in dell's 620s. I'm really in a fix here,If I have to install Windows on one of these 620s I don't think I could do it. I've been able to install linux via a serial console But I haven't found a live CD that works. I either have no speech or the drivers are too old. Alex Snow wrote: > I've had nothing but trouble with grml...booted it up with software > speech on my old dell laptop and another slightly newer inspiron and > the sound drivers were pretty much broken (speech worked, but every > few words I'd hear a loud crackling noise). Also tried booting it on > a compaq proliant and got a kernel panic saying htere was no root > device. Booting it up on my athlon box gave no speech at all even > though both the onboard sound and second pci soundcard are supported > by linux. > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:50:14PM +0100, Michael Whapples > wrote: >> The messages I read on this list before about GRML seemed to say that GRML >> contains software speech, so the actual installation is spoken using >> software speech (if you are installing a distro with it). Admittedly if you >> want something that automatically provides software speech without needing >> to issue any bash commands, then oralux is the one, as GRML you need to >> start speechd-up as I remember. Suppose if you felt like it, you could >> modify GRML to contain a script to start speechd-up though. >> >> From >> Michael Whapples >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dart Vader" >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:11 AM >> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports >> >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> Michael Whapples writes: >>> >>>> GRML can be found at www.grml.org >>> Shame on me. I should guess it or at least try. >>> Thanx a lot, Michael. >>> >>>> Another project that is a bootable CD version of linux with software >>>> speech output is oralux at www.oralux.org but I think their aims are >>>> slightly different, to simplify linux for the newby. >>> My first steps were with this distro. Although it offers to do >>> knoppix-like installation, I slightly modified an installation script >>> and did debian-like installation. But this installation is not very true >>> installation, it better looks like simple copying of working system. But >>> I believe, it is the only way to do the linux installation using >>> software speech. >>> >>> >>> Thanks for your attention. >>> WBR, Roman >>> out >>> --- >>> >>> Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't >>> think >>> that this is coincidence. >>> >>> --- >>> >>> >>>> From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dart Vader" >>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for >>>> Linux." Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:45 AM >>>> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports >>> >>>>> Hi, Michael. >>>>> >>>>> Could you, please, tell the url, where I can read (download image) >>>>> about GRML or similar things. >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >