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From: Joshua Lambert <josh@techlab.cviatlanta.org>
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Subject: telling speakup to use ttyS1
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In your boot loader, you need to pass the location of your serial port to 
speakup if you explicitly want ttyS1.
speakup_ser=ttyS1
Would do it from the get go.
You will have to read the docs for your boot loader to figure out how to 
pass parameters to the kernel command line.
hth
Josh