Did you make sure you pressed the number pad key? From your description, it may be something as simple as that. -- charlie Crawford. At 05:30 AM 9/16/03 -0400, you wrote: >OK, I'm a bit befuttled here... I am extremely new to linux. I literally >know minus to nothing hardly... I only know just barely and I emphacize, >barely, know enough to get me by... Anyhow, I am using an accent S A on >/dev/ttyS0 and have my linux system set up on /dev/hdb1 as I have two hard >disks, and am running Windows m E on c: which by the way, I do plan on >ditching in the long run... > >here is the problem that I ran into. Lorenzo Prince, once trying to help me >yesterday with installing Slackware version 9, with Speakup. All went >beautifully, until I ran into a bad situation. We can't find the speakup >mapped keyboard in the list of keyboard maps... Yet, the installer said you >could skip that step altogether unless you are running a keyboard besides a >standard U.S. 1o1 setup. lorenzo told me though that I had to map the >keyboard in there as if I didn't and used the standard, then my speakup >navigational keys wouldn't work. Well... he was right... Everything >installed flawlessly, except that now, speakup will not let me navigate and >move around the screen... like, if I hit the 7 key, to move up the screen >by line, it won't do it. I will here something real weird like either 1, or >5, or something. i know that isn't written on the screen though, as it's >percistent. no, I didn't set a frame buffer size in lilo; I just used the >standard Linux console. I hope that it doesn't have to do with the x system >or gnome or the fact that I literally installed every single package that >was included. I figure I'd rather have far too much, than far too little, >you know? lorenzo told me that he knew in Redhat there was a speakup >keyboard layout, but I sure don't see it in the list under Slackware. > >i just booted straight to the CD, with no floppy, and typed: > >speakup.i speakup_synth=acntsa > > >That got it up and talking at that point. Then a corse, I had to pass that >to the boot loader, lilo. Which by the way, is installed currently on my >mbr of this machine. > >I didn't create a linux Swap partition as I was told that since I had 320 mb >of ram, it really wasn't a requirement. I always thought it was, but o >well... i really at this point, just don't know what on earth Lorenzo and I >may have failed to see... Could someone please suggest either on or off >list, to either him or I, what we may should do? preferably you'll probably >be better off for now anyway, talking to him about it then he can help me >out as like i said, I'm so knew to this, that if you started talking >mapping, or mounting points etc, you're gonna lose me right away... > >Any help is greatly appreciated. > > >Chris. > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
