Anytime, Anna. And, if the Pogo folks need to talk with one of us to get your machine working properly, that's OK, too. I think we'd all be delighted to have them knowledgable about speakup and how we interface to computers. On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Anna Schneider wrote: > Hello. I'm including the message to whic I am responding this time. > Sorry about the previous time. My brain has been more fried in the pat > few weeks then it's been in ages. > > That all makes sense and after I ordered my computer today, which I did do > much excitement, I forwarded various links to them to look at and > emphasized that I want to be in communication with the technical people > there. I think it should all be fine. > > Thank you again for much help. > > Anna > > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Anna: > > > > I'm not sure who you're responding to, because you didn't retain any of > > the message you're responding to. Since several of us wrote you, including > > me, I'm taking the liberty to say that this message below is not correct, > > from the perspective of my earlier note today. There's no reason to patch > > a kernel tree and compile a new kernel in order to get speakup into a Red > > Hat 7.2 installation. Red Hat has something called the Red Hat Package > > Manager, rpm for short, that will be very familiar to the Pogo people. > > It's a simple way of swapping a new kernel, one that has speakup in it, > > into your installation. > > > > The difference between the rpm approach and compiling a new kernel is > > major. Using rpm, the Pogo people can have you up to speed in a matter of > > minutes. Doing the kernel route is at least an hour for an experienced > > person, and many many hours for someone doing it for the first time. > > On > > Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Anna Schneider wrote: > > > > > Okay. I need to read some how to documents before my computer actually > > > arrives. I didn't unerstand most of that. *grin* The files to do either > > > of those options are on the Speak Up web site right? I saw a file called > > > something like speakup.tar.gc or some such that I am assuming is Speakup > > > without a distribution, or Speakup I can stick on top of a distribution. > > > > > > Anna > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > -- 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
