From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com ([24.25.9.101]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HPMsR-0002Og-00 for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:58:07 -0500 Received: from sirensong.carolina.rr.com (cpe-071-068-072-244.carolina.res.rr.com [71.68.72.244]) by ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l28Hw3ns011486 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:58:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <7.0.0.16.0.20070308124612.01b6be80@carolina.rr.com> Message-Id: <7.0.0.16.0.20070308122949.01b41e08@carolina.rr.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.0.16 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:58:02 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." From: Ricky Enger Subject: Re: Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:58:08 -0000 Hi , To my knowledge, the only reasonably stable method of using the Dec Express with Orca is through the Emacspeak speech services driver. It's slightly sluggish this way, but not so much as to make it unusable or even that annoying. To make that work, you'll just need to yum for the latest version of Emacspeak. You'll then see the choice for Emacspeak speech services in the speech system combo box in the speech tab of the preferences dialog. Still, that doesn't address the practical aspects of getting the system installed in the first place. The telnet idea is indeed a good one, and while I haven't played with the Fedora live CD, I know that in theory at least you can use the graphical installer and Orca to install the system. As to whether Speakup or Emacspeak would work with the serial port on the docking station or other device, I really couldn't say. My only experience with a "nonstandard" serial device is with a USB to serial adapter and it doesn't work with Speakup. Oddly enough, haven't tried it with Orca yet. Maybe I'll go do that now, smile. Good luck getting everything installed and configured. Ricky At 12:12 PM 3/8/2007, you wrote: >Hello, >Bare in mind that the Dectalk Express driver may have bugs in it. I'm not >even sure if its available in the stable Orca tree. As far as Orca's >concerned, its not available in Sid yet. Looking at the status of Gnome >in Experimental, it looks like to me that All the Gnome 2.16 stuff is >built for Amd64. Since I don't have access to an Amd64 box at present >(Sparc64 I do), its not available to me even in Experimental. However, >when it does become available in Unstable, I'd be more than willing to >post a little review for any of you who may be interested in it. From >what I've heard of in Forefox 3 betas, it looks very promissing for what's >coming down the pike.