Make sure that what you wrote below for your serial port is really just a typo. It should be t t y followed by a capital S then the zero. Your /etc/lilo.conf will look something like the following. Don't mess with the top part: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b compact prompt #The next command sets time out in tenths of a second. So, this setting is 50 seconds timeout=500 #The next command reads what to display from a file. See below message = /boot/message lba32 default=linux #the following makes your DEC Talk say "boot" at the lilo prompt serial=0,9600N8 image = /boot/vmlinuz label=linux alias = l initrd=/boot/initrd.img read-only root=/dev/hda1 append = "speakup_synth=dectlk hdc=ide-scsi" There may be more in your file. The append statement is what starts Speakup. You don't need to specify the port. Here's how to create a /boot/message file that will beep twice and put "Welcome!" on screen: echo -e "\a Welcome! \a" >/boot/message Good luck. Don Raikes writes: > From: "Don Raikes" <draikes100 at hotmail.com> > > Hello, > > I am a newbie to linux and speakup. I followed the instructions on the > speakup website to install redhat 8.0 using speakup. It spoke fine. > > However, now that I have rebooted, speakup is not launching. I suspect I > missed the step to add the extra parameters into the lilo.conf file. > > Can you give me an example so I can edit the lilo.conf file (with a little > sighted help)? > > System Configuration: > redhat 8.0 > dectalk express on /dev/ttsy0 > Unknown option in config file /home/janina/.links/links.cfg, line 13 > -- 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
