since you have a working copy of jfw 3.2, all you need do to find out
what comports your devices that are installed through it are hanging
on is take a look at synth.ini and then re-install jfw 3.3 with
minimal devices. try for instance at first only eloq and decexp.
Tim Culhane wrote:
>
> Most pcs usually only have two comm ports nowadays. If you tell jaws that a
> braille device or synth is listening on a certain port, and jaws starts and
> the hardware in question is not on that port, then jaws will crash.
>
> I'm not sure how you can determine which comm port is 1 or 2, though it may
> be written on the port itself, so you might need sighted assistance.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Muhammad Fazil
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 5:51 AM
> To: JFW
> Subject: big disappointment with re-installation of jfw3.3, help please!
>
> hi listers,
> my most sincere and humble apology for a rather lengthy post. Here it goes.
> I tried to re-install jfw3.3, as I talked about this morning, if some of you
> might remember. well, I'm sorry to say that it was an utter disappointment.
> So, now I'm without jfw3.3, but thanks to jfw3.2 that I did not delete and
> hanged on to it for a potential rainy day, such as like this one.
> what happened, I clicked the setup button, and the opening screen came up
> all right. Dr. Jaws examined the system and approved it. The next screen
> gave me 2 options, and I picked up 'custom-install' out of those. then the
> next screen asked me which drive i'd install jfw, and gave me a list of
> drive that included my desired drive, so I chose drive e. Then after few
> screens, it gave me synthesizer options, first I picked up eloquence, as I
> did before, next synthesizer I picked dectalk express, here jaws asked me
> what comport I'd choose for dectalk express, and gave me a list from #1
> through # 4. I wasn't certain which comport to select, so I, just on a
> spin of a coin, selected comport 2. I also picked up, from this screen,
> flextalk as an additional synthesizer. After that, jaws asked me to select
> braille display devices, so first I selected braille lite 40, and jaws asked
> me again what comport I wanted for braille lite, this time, without any
> conscious knowledge, I chose comport 4. Then jaws asked me if I wanted
> another braille display, I said 'yes' and selected Rabit, jaws again asked
> what comport, again I picked up comport 4. Jaws had oked the selections,
> and proceeded with the rest of the installation process, following
> confirmation with me. after installing several files, jaws said some thing
> like this, installation is complete successfully, I can read the 'read-me'
> file for new features, press ok
> to run jaws. Here I hit ok button, and jaws went dead. There might be some
> error message which I could not detect, although I loaded jaws 3.2 and tried
> to find the error message, if it was there at all.
> I repeated the process at least 3 times but with no luck.
> What I was doing wrong here? Does it make a difference to select a wrong
> comport? How should I know how many comports I have, and what I have on
> which? Is it possible that jaws must be searching for the braille devices
> when they weren't there? Do I need to install something else before
> selecting braille display devices?
> any help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks! Best regards,
> Muhammad Fazil,
> Ph.D Candidate, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia,
> Vancouver BC, Canada.
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> Mentes quaerentes volunt scire quid in Hadei facias totum diem!
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