I have also used Oralux for finding out what hardware a machine has. A few days ago, I bought a used scsi card and I couldn't get Winders to detect it. So I bbooted into Oralux and found out what card it was. Of course, as it turns out, there are no Win XP drivers. So I put it in my debian machine. At 03:44 PM 12/29/2005, you wrote: >Well there's Oralux. Let's you try both Braille and software speech >together. I've found it very helpful for learning emacs in a playpen -- a >place where you can't mess up your real system. Also it's been interesting >for me to run Oralux and look at system output like lsmod and dmesg to see >what is being used from the kernel on my particular systems. > >I've also used oralux as a live rescue CD when I messed up my sound card >drivers so badly that my system no longer talked. > >I understand you can even compile software using Oralux and store the >results on a usb drive for transfering to another box. Probably I'll try >that next. > > www.oralux.org > >--Debee > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu 3-4189
