What is the bare minimum of RAM that will boot Wheezy with speakup? I have a pair of Dell Optiplexes whose mother boards contain 3 slots each and can address up to 768 megs but presently hold 128-megabyte SIMS. They are currently talking just fine but the OS in present use is Vinux2.0 from 2009. I did build a system at work from Wheezy that holds 514 megs and does run present Debian wheezy with speakup and no gnome. It really works quite well so I would like to get these two optiplexes to be able to upgrade to today's world. I did copy the system at work to a boot drive and tried to boot one of the Dells but it just sits there and I suspect that there isn't enough memory to handle the boot process. Are there still places around where one might buy 256-meg sims? Since both systems presently work properly, the memory issue is probably the only thing holding things back. I use one of these old boxes as a talking terminal to reach other unix systems and the other contains two sound cards that record audio from radio receivers. I am thinking that these sound cards and the operating system would play more nicely together under wheezy. I discovered that I can not adjust record volume on one of the cards no matter what I tell amixer. A more modern OS probably contains a better driver for that card plus udev most likely works better. After you finish laughing, I do have two newer systems that do have 1 G of RAM, each, but they do more general work. One runs gnome fairly well and the other is used for PIC microcontroller development projects and general audio tinkering. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
