Have you confirmed that your blt works from DOS or windows? Greg On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 06:52:50PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > Ed, > Wich speach synth are you using? I just cant seem to get my Braille Lite to > work, and that's the only thing I got (until tuxtalk is ready). Do you have > any ideas? I called tec support and they gave me all the dumb ass solutions > like "is your cable hooked up? > Thanks in advance, > Alex Snow > P.S. what kind of system are you using? I'm using a 1 gig amd box with 128 > megs of ram and thirty gigs of disk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Barnes" <ed.barnes at janus.northatlantic.nf.ca> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 12:01 PM > Subject: Re: choosing a distro and version > > > > Hi Alex. > > Thanks for writing. > > I would actually prefer to go with a system that is not a dual boot > because > > I hate dual boots unless they are the *only* option so I will be running > the > > system on a system dedicated to Linux only. > > I also want the challenges of configuring the system as someone who will > be > > graduating from an I.T. program in May. > > I feel the little introduction we received with regard to Linux totally > > missed the boat so to speak so I want to teach myself all I can. > > I am going to go Red Hat because there are more users of that distro > locally > > so I figure should I do anything to totally mess up my machine I'll have > > more help sources around here should I need to avail of them. > > Thanks and have a nice day. > > Ed Barnes > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 9:23 AM > > Subject: Re: choosing a distro and version > > > > > > Hi Ed, > > I am a first-time linux user and have a piece of advice: If you haven't > used > > linux befor, download "zipspeak" from > > ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/zipspeak/zipspeak.zip > > It's a preconfigured slackware that will run from a fat partition. I'd > > suggest it for people who are new to linux. It is pretty easy to setup > and > > I know how to set it up. Also it's author is very helpfull. > > Hope this helps > > Alex Snow > > P.S. I am working on a red hat version of zipspeak. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
