From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net ([206.13.28.240]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17wb9Y-00082T-00 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:30:29 -0400 Received: from panda.PacBell.NET ([64.170.194.222]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H3C008RJ76NLV@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 21:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 21:33:43 -0700 From: Bear in SFO Subject: Re: Dec Talk internal cards supported? In-reply-to: X-Sender: bearsfo@postoffice.pacbell.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021001213123.00ad6a60@postoffice.pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <"Your message of Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:28:36 -0400. <5.1.0.14.2.20021001102801.0235d5f0"@198.144.194.210> Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Of course it had been a decade+ since I last used Emacs and have forgotten most of the commands already (back then I can see and therefore had cheat sheets and manuals) Oh well I guess until I can find an external DEC that I can afford, my poor BNS will have to do the job AND be my 'digital diary' :) --David At 01:33 PM 10/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hello all. There are no dectalk internal boards supported to my >knowledge. Only the external serial dectalk express and the original >dectalk external synthesizers are supported. The problem with the >internal isa cards is that they have to have software downloaded onto >the card before they can be used. Since Speakup is activated and >initialized almost the first thing after the kernel is loaded and >initialized, and before the file system is available, there is at >present no way to have the kernel download the software onto the >internal dectalk boards. I believe you can use these boards with emacs >speak, but I am not familiar with it, and so can not say. Making these >dectalk boards usable is on Kirk's to do list, but there are a number of >things that have to happen first, such as the almost complete rewrite of >Speakup to make it usable with the 2.2.5 kernels, and the modularization >of the synthesizer drivers, before a dectalk-pc driver could be written. > >Gene > > >It is difficult to find computers or have on ebuilt with the isa slots > >required for the dec pc's. So $150 might be unrealistic. > > > >-- charlie. > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup