So how do I get Gnome to work on my Slackware 9.0 system? When I type 'gdm' which I thought was the command to start Gnome, it does nothing. Thanks, Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Adam Myrow wrote: > So, why did Redhat choose to drop Speakup from their next version? It > sounds like maybe somebody didn't like the modified kernel. So, they > should have done like Slackware and gave the user a choice of a > Speakup-enabled kernel or not. BTW, Slackware 9.0 just came out and has > Gnome 2.2 with accessibility plug-ins, and still supports Speakup. It is > down to a boot disk and two root disks to install, but also has a third > option which is some sort of boot manager on a separate disk that will > supposedly boot a CDROM even on computers that otherwise can't boot one. > I don't know if this will speak or not, but it sure sounds interesting. I > sure hope Redhat reconsiders dropping Speakup as it is a major step in the > wrong direction. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >