Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote:
> How high can you go with modern serial ports? I've seen choices as high as
> 115000 bits or something.
yes, modern serial device can go up to that speed.
I just looked into my inittab file and notice that the sample-line for
serial terminals indeed says 9600 baud.
> By the way, I don't think I really need your brltty mini ISO provided that i
> won't be having any major problems with serial install. I'd appreciate it if
> you kept it a few days, though, as I don't know if everything goes OK until
> actually having attempted the installation. Also, the Voyager is normally
> plugged to this laptop rather than to the Linux machine, so I won't be using
> braille big time in Linux yet. who knows if everything goes smoothly enough,
> I'll some day install Linux on all three machines.
well, let me know.
I'm about 99.9% linux based.
I only use windows now for my ebanking-software, nothing more.
> Machine summary:
>
> -music machine: 1.4 GHz Amd, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB ATA 100 HD, TerraTec EWS88
> MT, Midiman USB MIDI-Sport 4x4, HardSID PCI, SB Live, GeForce 2
well, linux with mpg123 or mpg321, cdparanoia and i.e. lame as encoder
will do nicely.
I don't know about support for the midi-stuff, sb-live is best supported
bij ALSA-drivers.
> -laptop: 2.0 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, built-in sound, Tieman Braille
> Voyager, Canon Scanner, Ati Radeon 7000 something
have a look on the net, there are loads of install examples for laptops
available.
Have had it installed on at least 2 Toshiba's since I astred using debina
late '98
> -upcoming Linux machine: 300 MHz Celeron, 128 MB RAM, 3 GB hard drive,
> AWE32, Ati Rage Pro, Voodoo 2
you'd probably wnat alsa for sound on this oen too.
> I'll be installing Linux to my slowest machine first as Windows is still
> currently my primary OS and I just want to try out Linux as well. If I
> decide to move to Linux big time, I'll likely install it on all the other
> machines including my music machine. Though the last time I looked, MIDI
> Sport 2x2 was supported but 4x4 was not. Oh well.
well, maybe the newest 2.6.x kernel will.
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