Hi. As you know I had many initial problems with Red Hat 8.0, but thanks to suggestions and help I've solved all the problems, and now RH 8.0 works like a charm. I am sharing my solutions with all of you so that you can try this in case you encounter the same issues I had. First, problem I had was when i wrote out the boot floppies speakup would not talk to me. This is still a problem I am having, but my solution was to set the bios to boot from the cdrom, and from that point the install worked fine. Second, problem during install I got confused where I was and accidently activated the ok button before choosing a text login. Afterward I was unable to switch to a text login, and I simply reinstalled Red Hat, and that time made absolutely sure I checked text login before pressing ok. Third, speakup had been acting strangely, and after every command I would get an error, "command error in string." With Bill's help I've found out Red Hat has changed the clock speed, and I need to make some changes to jiffy_delta and delay_time. I've put the following commands in my /etc/rc.d/local file and now my dectalk Express works properly all the time. echo 25>/proc/speakup/dec_express/jiffy_delta echo 100 >/proc/speakup/dec_express/delay_time echo h >/proc/speakup/voice echo 300 >/proc/speakup/rate echo 3 >/proc/speakup/punc_level echo 95 >/proc/speakup/pitch
