If he's getting kernel panic, there should still be speech, as you say. Actually, it should be helpful re the reason for the panic. It should be intelligible. Gregory Nowak writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 06:48:19AM +0800, jaffar at jeffstudio.net wrote: > > Hi. My dactalk said nothing. Apart from 3 or 4 garbled words which was > > beyond me, it said absolutely nothing after that. Cheers! > > After what, the initial probe by speakup? If so, then this sounds like > a probing issue somewhere, likely hardware related. If on the other > hand this is when the system has booted, then that sounds like a > possible kernel panic or init problem to me. I don't know about > speakup 2.0, but in older speakup versions, if there was a kernel > panic or init problem, speakup would say parts of words, (I.E. hitting > numpad-8 on a blank line would say something like "bla", and cut the > rest). > > Greg > > > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCeqiw7s9z/XlyUyARAgy2AKDfykzbULLtLUpzy0r1DQwg1uojpwCfV0lI > adNn2DTJiube7asCEV1uRlM= > =FLW5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
