yes! i'm to poor and live in a box so i can't aford good hardware if i reformat this old windows machine 256 meg with 731 mhz maybe? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:34 AM Subject: Re: debian installed??? > Hi. > > It's because of his hardware. Depending on the amount of ram in the > system, he can get Gnome up and running for sighted people, but the load > added by Gnopernicus and software speech would make the system too slow > to be used. > > If he has 64 meg, Gnome will run slowly for sighted users, but it can be > used. > > Hope this helps. > Kenny > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:14:18PM -0500, Taylor, Carlos Ervin wrote: >> Is that because of his hardware or because of the dlinux distribution? >> I'm new to this stuff so forgive me if this seems like a stupid >> question. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of jim grimsby >> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:09 PM >> To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' >> Subject: RE: debian installed??? >> >> Hi, on that configuration I do not think I would reckamend gnome at this >> time for that system. Hth >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >> On Behalf Of Farhan >> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 12:48 PM >> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >> Subject: Re: debian installed??? >> >> >> my next question is how do i use links or lynx. and, the xconfig to use >> gnome for all the sighted peoples in my house? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org> >> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 2:12 PM >> Subject: Re: debian installed??? >> >> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: RIPEMD160 >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:51:27 PM -0600, Farhan wrote: >> >> Hey all. just got debian installed on this old pent 2 233 mhz >> >> computer with 32 mb of ram the thing i'm wondering is. how do i save >> >> my config for speakup and how do i turn off the type echo. >> > >> > To turn off the typing echo >> > >> > echo 0 >/proc/speakup/key_echo >> > >> > Saving and restoring settings is a bit more complicated, but basically >> >> > you need to copy /proc/speakup to somewhere like /etc/speakup and copy >> >> > it back upon reboot. There are a number if different scripts to do >> > this floating around, but in the cvs version of speakup is a >> > speakupconf script which comes in handy. >> > >> > - -- >> > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. >> > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by >> > definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan >> > >> > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP >> > SIGNATURE----- >> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) >> > >> > iD8DBQFCLLW95JK61UXLur0RA/U5AJ9kOrQtFlygcGVFtxXyHlcCluNvkQCeKaki >> > Qi/X/TByqAIrZLUvCHtWIs0= >> > =nd4q >> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Speakup mailing list >> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup