Have you tried a talking live CD? SystemRescueCD or something? On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Yes, my CD images I downloaded yesterday worked on my good box. I > can't get it to work on my laptop however. I can't tell if the initrd > is at fault or if there just isn't enough memory in my lap to run > this. It only has 32 MB <sigh> but I can run Slackware on it. Maybe > I just had better stick to slackware on my laptop. Slackware has > always prided itself in being able to run on lower grade machines. I > like Debian on my big machine so wanted to move it onto my other > machines but it falls over on my laptop. I dunno if there is anything > I can do to make this happen or not. Actually, would it be possible > to get speakup into the text installer instead? maybe the text > installer would have a better chance to run on my low grade laptop. > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Keith Barrett, le Sat 15 Nov 2008 23:21:23 +0000, a ?crit : > > > Got daughter to confirm that graphical is selected but still get an > > > "unknown boot option" message. > > > > Well, actually that message is normal: the kernel just says that it > > didn't use it. > > > > Oh, wait a minute: didn't you say that you use the beta2? I can't > > remember when that was release but I bet speakup wasn't included at the > > time. Release Candidate 1 should have it, however. > > > > Samuel > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJH2LPWSjv55S0LfERA4NNAKCLUQZsTCGDS466Whk+KBXTy1ZDWACg7bxt > UZXdfRY18FcZs7kiNLHU+uw= > =n1ZU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
