I think I have found a way to use a speaking kernel with BasicLinux. However, since I do not have a speech synthesizer, I cannot check this myself. If any of you guys has a synthesizer, I would be grateful if you could try these instructions and tell me if they work.
----------------------------------------- Instructions for making BasicLinux speak. ----------------------------------------- (1) Download standard BasicLinux zip file to DOS directory. http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/download.html (2) Download speaking kernel to the same directory. http://east.dl.sourceforge.net/mirrors/slackware/slackware-8.0/kernels/speakup.i/bzImage ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/slackware/slackware-8.0/kernels/speakup.i/bzImage (3) Unzip BasicLinux zip file and edit boot.bat. Change zimage to bzimage and add speakup_synth parameter. For example, if you have a DoubleTalk synthesizer on COM1, your boot.bat should look like this: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- loadlin bzimage root=/dev/ram rw initrd=baslinux.gz speakup_synth=dtlk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have a different brand of synthesizer, you should change the 'dtlk' to accentpc, accentsa, apolo, audptr, bns, decext, dectlk, ltkl, spkout or txprt. If your synthesizer is on COM2, COM3 or COM4, you need to include an extra parameter at the end of boot.bat: ---------------- speakup_serial=1 ---------------- This tells Linux that your synthesizer is on ttyS1 (COM2). For ttyS2 (COM3), use 2. For ttyS3 (COM4), use 3. That's all there is to it. Just execute boot.bat and see if Linux talks to you. Cheers, Steven
