Where did you get the Red Hat 9 that you used to install? In particular, what kernel version are you running? What do you get from: rpm -q kernel If there is not a "spk2" on the end of your kernel filename, you need to get a Speakup enabled kernel from: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/ In order to get the best speech performance, you may need to create a new initrd image to load the Speakup driver for your speech synth. For example, if your synth is ltlk, the mkinitrd command should include: --with=speakup_ltlk However, I have no idea whether this will fit on a boot floppy. Haven't looked into that. So, let me ask the threshold question about the boot floppy. Why? Why did "it become necessary" to boot from a floppy, as you write? Krister Ekstrom writes: > From: Krister Ekstrom <crisekstrom at bredband.net> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hi speakup, > > I have installed Red hat 9.0 on my computer in a dual-boot > environment. It became necessary however to start Red hat from > a boot diskette. This is no problems, the boot diskette works as > expected exept for one thing: Speakup doesn't start. I guess one has > to put in some command in one config file or another, i don't know > what file though. If someone familiar with Red hat 9 could point me in the > right direction, i'd be very greatful. I couldn't find anything in > the installation guide but maybe there's something i've overlooked? > TIA > > - -- > /Krister > mailto:crisekstrom at bredband.net > Get pgp keys here: mailto:crisekstrom at bredband.net?subject=get_pgp_keys > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-nr2 (Windows XP) > > iD8DBQE/j5y9ODlJeoMTOQsRA4ulAJ9Q+EvC3bRJdsG+R7qoiRDr57rCQACg5AQp > ocFj7PmfSMgw9i/S4yI2MOs= > =SmsD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org
