Problems with Speakup and Redhat

Problems with Speakup and Redhat

[James Poss]

Hello all,
I'm trying to install Redhat Linux version 6.1 on my pc.
I can't get my braille lite to work with speakup.
I have my braille lite set to 9600 baud, a stop bit, 8 data bits, no
parity, and software handshaking.
I downloaded the bnsb.bin file from the speakup ftp site, extracted it
with rawrite, and tried rebooting my computer.
The floppy accessed for a few seconds, I assumed I had a "Boot:" prompt on
my screen, so I pressed enter.
The floppy accessed for a while longer, my braille lite made a pop sound
as if something had been sent to it to speak, but none of the speakup
reading keys seemed to produce any speech.
Any help that can be offered would be appriciated.  Thanks

Jim

Re: Problems (Braille Lite)

[Kirk Wood]

Hopefully someone will correct me, but I am sure I remember seing that you
must set hardware flow control with your Braille Lite, or the Braille N
Speak. I have seen this fairly recently but didn't find it quickly in the
archives.


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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

Re: Problems with Speakup and Redhat

[Kirk Reiser]

Hi James:  Two things come to mind: first you should set your
braile-lite to hardware handshaking.  Secondly you need to turn on
speech box mode with the chord-s command from the speech menu.  Try
these and see if that helps.

  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: Problems with Speakup and Redhat

[Brent Harding]

You probably have to enter speech box mode for it to work. There's several
ways in the help file, I believe each does something a little different.
At 12:54 AM 10/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>I'm trying to install Redhat Linux version 6.1 on my pc.
>I can't get my braille lite to work with speakup.
>I have my braille lite set to 9600 baud, a stop bit, 8 data bits, no
>parity, and software handshaking.
>I downloaded the bnsb.bin file from the speakup ftp site, extracted it
>with rawrite, and tried rebooting my computer.
>The floppy accessed for a few seconds, I assumed I had a "Boot:" prompt on
>my screen, so I pressed enter.
>The floppy accessed for a while longer, my braille lite made a pop sound
>as if something had been sent to it to speak, but none of the speakup
>reading keys seemed to produce any speech.
>Any help that can be offered would be appriciated.  Thanks
>
>Jim
>
>
>
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>
>
>

Re: Problems with Speakup and Redhat

[Jason Custer]

Hi,
I have encountered a simular problem. I even tried the hardware handshake
stuff, and never got it to work. Bad file? bad disk? don't know. I just know
that there are now two of us. Maybe someone can shed some light on this
topic. I know I would be greatful.
Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: James Poss <shinnok@zevils.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:54 PM
Subject: Problems with Speakup and Redhat


> Hello all,
> I'm trying to install Redhat Linux version 6.1 on my pc.
> I can't get my braille lite to work with speakup.
> I have my braille lite set to 9600 baud, a stop bit, 8 data bits, no
> parity, and software handshaking.
> I downloaded the bnsb.bin file from the speakup ftp site, extracted it
> with rawrite, and tried rebooting my computer.
> The floppy accessed for a few seconds, I assumed I had a "Boot:" prompt on
> my screen, so I pressed enter.
> The floppy accessed for a while longer, my braille lite made a pop sound
> as if something had been sent to it to speak, but none of the speakup
> reading keys seemed to produce any speech.
> Any help that can be offered would be appriciated.  Thanks
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup