Hi, has anyone successfully tried Janina's suggestion with Grub? For technical reasons my large hard drive needs Grub to boot properly, and I've been trying to find a good way to multiboot kernels with it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Using speakup and emacspeak together > You don't need to have two kernels to achieve this. Simply use an > "append=speakup_synth=[your.synth.keyword]" to distinguish two entries > pointing to the same kernel in your lilo.conf to accomplish the same > result. Much more elegant and far easier to maintain. > > PS: I do this all the time. Here's an example from my lilo.conf: > > image = /boot/vmlinuz > label=nospeech > alias = n > vga=0X317 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > read-only > root=/dev/hda1 > append = "hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi" > > image = /boot/vmlinuz > label=express > alias = x > vga=0X317 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > read-only > root=/dev/hda1 > append = "speakup_synth=dectlk hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi" > > image = /boot/vmlinuz > label=litetalk > alias = l > vga=0X317 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > read-only > root=/dev/hda1 > append = "speakup_synth=ltlk hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi" > > image = /boot/vmlinuz > label=bns > alias = b > vga=0X317 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > read-only > root=/dev/hda1 > append = "speakup_synth=bns hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi" > > > On Mon, > 26 Nov 2001, > Dave Hunt wrote: > > > Tom, > > > > I had both for a time, and may do so again. What I found work best was to > > have two kernels, identical in all ways but one. One kernel had Speakup > > patched in, the other did not. I had them on floppies, but you could use > > loadlin, lilo, whatever. A warning: When running Emacspeak, be sure the > > Speakup keymap isn't getting loaded. For that matter, and perhaps more > > important, be sure your Speakup key map loads when you're running Speakup. > > > > -Dave > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, > Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > > Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther > King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at > http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > > Learn how to make accessible software at > http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
