Thomas, I'm very interested in your boot disk for FBSD 4.4. May I have a copy and where can I get it from? I have the serial cable and will be using termpro under windows. I'm correct in thinking that using your boot disk, I will be able to manage the complete installation and restart using termpro? Kind regards Mo. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Ward [mailto:tward@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 27 October 2001 15:58 To: speakup Subject: Re: FreeBSD, SUSE, keyboard shortcuts, e-zine Hi, Tony. Well, Speakup wouldn't work on the FBSD kernel, but I have a custumized boot disk for FBSD 4.4 that allows you to get speech output via a term program for the install and restart. You need some serial cables and a good term program as minicom under Linux, or hyper terminal to get it going. A friend and I are thinking eventually in porting Emacspeak to FBSD, and it looks like it is possible. As for Seuse Linux haven't played around with it for several versions. However, the braille support looks intresting. Well, if you need help building a speech distribution of Seuse perhaps I can help some. Esentually, what you do here is build a zImage of the kernel for the boot disk and make a boot disk like the cdrom.img or what ever they use. Then, you make a standard bzImage with all the features they use in there kernel, and then you patch Seuse, and make a new set of kernel rpm's and put them on the cd instead of the old ones. I've not actually done this before, but I have a pretty good idea of what is involved. I had studied up a while back on seeing if I could make Mandrake speakup ready, and I could have except it was a lot of work I didn't feel like doing at the time. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
