I can speak from a slackware point of view; you can start with a speakup enabled bootdisk from the speakup site. I don't know what version this is right now. From the slackware site under the slackware-current/bootdsks.144 you can find speakup.i and speakup.s which are boot disks for IDE and SCSI devices respectively. You then get the standard root disk, color.gz from slackware-current/rootdsks. This is the upcoming version 7.2 of slackware but is not yet stabilized. See ChangeLog.txt in the slackware-current directory for the up to the minute news. It looks like 7.2 could be out in the next few weeks; they are trying to nail things down but I still see some changes getting shoe horned in. -----Original Message----- From: Victor Tsaran [mailto:tsar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 5:46 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled kernels But, I could find the boot disks only. Where are the regular kernels then? Thanks, Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Cc: "Speakup List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:51 PM Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled kernels > Yes, Victor, we have full distributions which are fully speakup enabled. > That means that the kernels are already patched with speakup, and the boot > disks are already speakup enabled. All a user need do is to indicate their > synth and it's connection point at the first (non speaking) prompt. After > that, the install is speakup enabled, with full screen review via the > numeric keypad. > > At least, this is how the Redhat distributions genned by Bill Acker work. > Someone else will have to speak up for slackware and debian, as I have no > experience there. > > PS: Pun intended. > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Victor Tsaran wrote: > > > Hello, listers! > > Yes, I did use Speakup for installation purposes mostly and when the machine was in all kinds of troubles. However, today someone mentioned that one can download Speakup-enabled kernels. Are these boot kernels that people talked about? Does anybody have regular kernels with Speakup already compiled in? > > Best, > > Vic > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
