Oh, redhat is what I'd be using on such machines where I once thought the console was the most secure and best way to use it, and that speakup wouldn't work without reboot without the synth, making the trouble of unnecessary reboot to use the system. At 05:22 PM 10/24/00 +1100, you wrote: >Hi: > >Linux with speakup should boot without the synth, but speakup will be >inoperable for tha session. In addition to this, it's extremely trivial to >install a non-speakup kernel under speakup, in fact, redhat seems to do >this by default according to what I've read. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >