Greg, Thanks for your detective work. In order to do a network install in the presence of the defective speakup.s boot image, here is what I did: I prepared a Slackware 9.1 speakup.s bootdisk and network.dsk diskette. I booted with the bootdisk, but used install.1 and install.2 diskettes from Slackware 10.0. Then I configured the network with the network.dsk diskette from Slackware 9.1. It went smoothly from there, until it asked me for a kernel image to use at the end of the installation. I had to have a speakup.s image called "vmlinuz" on an MS-DOS formatted floppy to use at that point. Chuck On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > A few days ago, someone reported (I believe it was Chuck) that when > booting using the speakup.s floppy image in slackware 10, there is no > speech, even though the install.1 and install.2 root disks load just > fine. I have just verified this observation to be correct. When I boot > the speakup.s floppy from slackware 10 with a bns on ttyS0, I get no > speech, and the install.1 and install.2 root disks load just fine here > as well. However, if I boot with the speakup.s image from slackware > 9.1, the bns starts chattering away just fine. > > Wanting to investigate this further, after the install.2 disk finished > loading, I logged in, put another floppy in the system, and made a > copy of the dmesg output on that floppy. Before I go on, I want to > point out that when speakup.s loaded, at the boot prompt I typed: > > ramdisk speakup_synth=bns > > Below is the relevant portion of the dmesg output that I got when > booting with the floppies from slackware 10. > > Linux version 2.4.26 (root at tree) (gcc version 3.3.4) #33 Mon Jun 14 > 19:26:13 PDT 2004 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) > BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003000000 (usable) > 48MB LOWMEM available. > On node 0 totalpages: 12288 > zone(0): 4096 pages. > zone(1): 8192 pages. > zone(2): 0 pages. > DMI not present. > Kernel command line: vmlinuz ramdisk_size=7000 root=/dev/fd0u1440 > vga=normal rw SLACK_KERNEL=speakup.s > Initializing CPU#0 > Detected 133.644 MHz processor. > Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Mon Jun 7 10:52:38 EDT 2004 : initialized > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS > Memory: 45168k/49152k available (1982k kernel code, 3596k reserved, > 673k data, 120k init, 0k highmem) > Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) > Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) > Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) > initialized device: /dev/synth, node ( MAJOR 10, MINOR 25 ) > > These are the only mentions of speakup in the entire dmesg > output. Also, notice that while I typed: > > ramdisk speakup_synth=bns > > at the boot prompt, the dmesg output shown above says: > > Kernel command line: vmlinuz ramdisk_size=7000 root=/dev/fd0u1440 > vga=normal rw SLACK_KERNEL=speakup.s > > I tried this process twice more, and got the dmesg output twice more, > all with the same results. > > I had a look at the files in the speakup.s images from slackware 9.1, > and 10.0, but don't notice any obvious differences, especially when > carefully examining syslinux.cfg on both images. > > Obviously, there is a problem somewhere in the speakup.s image in > slackware 10.0, but darned if I know what that problem is. > > Greg > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBDD2N7s9z/XlyUyARAnmnAKCLG68+CJY01Tb8eOKwBB1qSvHaWACfdFih > LJnKN8VTNHmiz4oERnc7sus= > =KgyK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Full My home page is at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
