I thought slackware 9.2 was the latest? Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:27 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: progress, sort of *long* Why did you get slackware 8, if slackware 9.1 is the latest version? Greg On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Kyrath wrote: > Hi, I downloaded the slackware8 images and made the 2 floppies, and I > have a null modem cable connecting my 2 pcs. After reading the info on > the slackware.com site, I found that you are to type: ramdisk > console=ttyS0 at the prompt, right after the boot floppy stops and > press <enter> to force output to the serial port. Well... it actually > worked! However, the target pc seems to have locked up at the point > where it asks for the route disk. I did see something about the > slackware boot potentially causing some problems with the keyboard on > pentium machines, or something like that. So I need to look into this > issue. > > The only thing I'm wondering about is the terminal client. I used the > hyperterminal included with WinXP. Basically, I needed to use the > jaws cursor to read the output, but I also have some sight and used > zoomtext to verify what jaws was reading and making sure I read > everything. Is there a better term client to use with JFW and WinXP? > Also, any suggestions or comments regarding my keyboard issue would be > appreciated. BTW, it looks like the bootup sequence didn't recognize > any of my PCI cards. However, the mouse, hard drive, floppy, and cd > rom appear to have been detected correctly. > > -- Rob > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
