Re: Using speakup with a serial-connected speech synth

2017-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Odd Martin Baanrud, on Wed 04 Jan 2017 19:11:19 +0100, wrote: > It’s connected to a modern laptop via an usb to serial adapter. This is not supported by speakup yet. Samuel

Using speakup with a serial-connected speech synth

2017-01-04 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello and happy new year! A friend of mine has a good old Apollo speech synth, which we’ll like to use with speakup. It’s connected to a modern laptop via an usb to serial adapter. I’ve included the “speakup_apollo” module in the initrd. Now, how to get speakup running? The various readme files i

Switching off a (laptop) monitor

2017-01-04 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi all, on my previous laptop, I used `sudo vbetool dpms off` to switch off the monitor. which worked fine. On my Thinkpad, this doesn't work reliably anymore: after I have switched off the monitor, I cannot switch it on again. On the other hand, I cannot switch it off after it was in sleep mode.