Thanks fro the correction. Saw an article about an hour ago that said you could choose the kernel to boot. Tommy On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > First of all, there are still 3 Speakup boot disks. One for IDE, and two > different types of SCSI (not sure of the difference). > > I don't know for sure, but I'm told you can also boot any kernel (including > the Speakup ones) right from the CDROM - just type > speakup.i/speakup1.s/speakup2.s at the boot prompt. > > Saqib > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tommy Moore" <tmoore at cmrc.org> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:04 AM > Subject: Re: Good news > > > > Actually from what I've seen they've removed the Speakup kernels from the > > slackware-current distribution. Not sure if this is asking too much but > > having speakup in the default installation kernel would be really nice > > sice if people don't need it they won't be using it and then the cds will > > talk from the start instead of having to make boot floppies. > > > > Tommy > > > > > > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Having just finished my exams yesterday, I've been talking to Patrick > > > Volkerding (aka Mr Slackware). He's very interested in accessibility. As > you > > > may know he already has Speakup boot-disks in the original distribution. > > > > > > I asked him if he would consider adding Emacspeak, and there and then, > he > > > did it! He asked if you needed other software to use different devices, > and > > > I told him you needed Emacspeak-SS for other synths. He added this too! > And > > > then, he added BrlTTY as well, and is considering adding Flite and > NFBTrans > > > (though maybe not in 8.1). > > > > > > So all in all, with Redhat having Emacspeak, Debian coming with > > > Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/Brltty, and Slackware coming with all of > > > Speakup/Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/BrlTTY and offering to compile the > Doubletalk > > > PC driver into the default kernel, Linux and console accessibility > really > > > does look good (IMHO). > > > > > > Just thought I'd let you guys know this, and look forward to Slackware > 8.1 > > > being released. > > > > > > Saqib > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 >
