Redhat 7.1 Boot Disks Not Talking?

[Nick Allan]

hmmm, I downloaded the boot.img file from octothorp have have only had
limited success.  I can get the doubletalk lt to speak, but I don't see a
speakup keymap on the list, I assume I need the keymap loaded to enable me
to use the review keys.  The review keys don't appear to be working
correctly using the "US" keymap.
I am not using the redhat 7.1 iso from octothorp, i had already downloaded
one from a local source.
Anyone got any ideas on what I can do?


 Regards Nick
nallan at wdev.net


On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tommy Moore wrote:

> Hey there. Its easy to make the RH 7.1 boot disks talking.
> These disks are made so that they support all synths so you'll have to
> pass the speakup_syth option like this:
> text speakup_synth=dtlk
> And when you install the system select speakup map instead of US.
> What I jsut do is hit t to go to the t maps and then go up twice or
> three times to the speakup on.
> Also I've been wanting to ask Bill what the speakup-lt map is, but
> never got around to it so help on what that one is would be cool.
> heh.
> Anyways when you get down to the lilo section pay attention to when it
> asks you for command line options to pass to the kernel. You don't
> need to type the append before your options so in the box just go:
> speakup_synth=dtlk
> That's all that I can really think of that you do different ot get
> things to work with speakup and RH 7.1. I've installed it more than
> once using this method so it should work nice.
> Thanks a bunch Bill.
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:24:00AM -0700, Pete De Vasto wrote:
> > Hi, everyone:
> >
> > I've downloaded boot.img from the RedHat 7.1 directory in
> > speakup.octothorp.org because I want to upgrade my system from RedHat 7.0
> > to 7.1.  I currently have speakup running through a DoubleTalk LT
> > synthesizer.  After creating the boot disk, when I reboot from diskette, I
> > type "text" at the boot prompt, but the DoubleTalk will not speak.  If, on
> > the other hand, I create a boot from ltlkb.bin from the linux-speakup.org
> > FTP site, it DOES talk during the boot.   Am I missing something in terms
> > of using the 7.1 boot disk?
> >
> > Thanks, as always, for any help.
> > --
> > Pete De Vasto
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> >
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