Gena, thanks for that pointer. I don't remember seeing anything here about the period replacing the underscore, but you inspired me to do a google search, and I found mention of it on the Linux from Scratch site. In case this may be useful to anybody, my Fedora 9 didn't come up talking at first. With the aid of my GRML CD, I found that grub.conf still had the underscore where the period should be now. I fixed that, and the bad boy speaks. I don't know whether this is because I did an upgrade instead of a reinstall, but I doubt it. If it did, though, I'll be glad for correction. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgina Joyce" < gena at mga.demon.co.uk> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." < speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 7:20 PM Subject: Re: trying to install Fedora 9 > Hi > > Try using a dot instead of the underscore. speakup.synth= > Gena > On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 17:09 -0400, Albert E. Sten-Clanton wrote: > > First, congratulations to Bill and Janina for getting out a speakup-modified version of Fedora before the "official" one hits the cyberstreets. Though I'm having a problem, I think that's really cool. > > > > My problem is that so far I've been unable to get speech for installing Fedora 9. I'm trying to do it using the DVD image on my hard drive and a CD of the Fedora-Rawhide-i386-netinst.iso image. The CD passed the SHA1SUM check. > > > > After the CD spins briefly, I do up-arrow, tab, space, then "askmethod speakup_synth=ltlk" and hit enter. I've also tried down-arrow instead of up-arrow, as well as adding "speakup_ser=0". (I use an external TriplTalk.) I tested my steps on my Fedora 8 rescue CD, which worked fine, so I'm pretty sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to unless the process has changed. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > Al Sten-Clanton > >
