Because it was the most recent on the slackware downloads of the speakup site. http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/slackware/ There are only versions 7.0, 7.1, and 8.0 available on there, along with zipspeak and some loop something or other. Does version 9.1 from slackware.com incorporate speakup as well? -- Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:27 PM 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 >
