thanks Chuck. I just discovered that apparently the 2.6.8 kernel or some part of it has a bug in speakup where if you try to use the mark and unmark feature speakup goes totally dead and only by rebooting can I get speech back. I'll do the install again tomorrow, since I wasn't quite careful enough with the partitioner and I want to make some changes there anyway. Thanks for the info on those two packages. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 7:10 PM Subject: Re: back again > Hi Dan, > > The prompt for host name contains a default suggestion, which you could > accept just by pressing enter there. It is sort of like the old > Slackware "darkstar". The domain name is a separate question. > > As for finding out what's in a package set, I really don't know how one > would do that. The manual choice is certainly not the way. That's for > folks who are already familiar with packages. I have always just picked > "desktop" and then later have added stuff one by one as needed. It is so > easy to add or remove packages that the desktop selection turns out to > be just a general purpose "starter set" for the average user. I have > found two sources really helpful which you can install with the apt-get > command. They will put detailed documentation in your /usr/share/doc > directory, where you can browse them with lynx or elinks, whichever you > prefer. Do this: > > apt-get install debian-reference-en > and > apt-get install rutebook > > or you could get them both at once: > > apt-get install debian-reference-en rutebook > > The first of these has a man page, but the other only ends up in > /usr/share/doc. > > Those two should get you some mileage. > > Chuck > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (66% of Full) > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
