On Sun, 26 May 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > As some of you know, Slackware Linux 8.1 is in beta test status now. It > has reached what is being called "rc1." This means release candidate 1. > Yet, none of the pre-compiled kernels have Speakup in them. I decided to > try and rectify this by taking the bare.i kernel's config file and > building a Speakup-enabled kernel based on it. Unfortunately, the Speakup > kernel came out to over 1 MB and a warning came up stating that it was too > large to boot from a floppy. So, it looks like for Speakup to work in > Slackware 8.1 with a 2.4.18 kernel, some options are going to have to be > removed. Just thought this would be a useful heads up so that we can > resolve this before Slackware 8.1 becomes final. It's a good job that you've spotted this, it'd be worth writing to them asap to remedy this problem, as thios would be a huge backward step. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
