Hi Silly me, didn't think of that one. Gena >I'm not sure, but what your problem might be is that Speakup is talking far >slower than the system is booting. That is, since the speech buffer gets >full and takes a long time to clear the system doesn't boot until speakup >stops talking. Solution is to either keep your finger on the control key, >or else press numpad enter. This last command silences speech until another >key is pressed. After waiting about 30 seconds press numpad 8 to read the >current line and if it is the login prompt then you've succesfully booted. > >Let us know if this works. > >Saqib > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dan Murphy" <mweeby at nycap.rr.com> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 4:57 PM >Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f > > >> >> >> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:30:25 -0500 (EST) >> From: Dan Murphy <mweeby at nycap.rr.com> >> To: Speakup list <speakup at braillw.uwo.ca> >> Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond. >> >> Hello listers. >> Last week, I posted a question about partitioning a drive with Windows >> already on it, and Parted was recommended. I downloaded it from the >> speakup site and attempted to use it. Well I am now, sadly, only a little >> sadly, "parted" from my windows partition. (grin) >> I'm not going to blame the program, rather just my ineptitude and lack of >> experience. So, now that I was back to square one, and I am not certain >> whan I can get sighted assistance to reinstall the MS monster, I >> partitioned the drive in 2 parts. The first 10 G for the eventual >> Windows, and the remainder including a good size 345MB swap partition. >> for linux. I have installed Slackware 8.0 on it, but I have a few >> questions. When I go to use the installation boot disk with speakup on >> it, after I type "ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk", it loads up but it takes >> something on the order of 10 minutes to do so. >> this is a 500 MHZ Pentium 3 with 128 MB of ram. Should I rebuild the >> installation floppy, or is there something I should type differently at >> the boot prompt? >> I must say, though, it is nice to watch Linux purr along on that as >> oposed to this little P166 with only 40 MB of ram. >> Thanks, and please excuse the rambling. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
