Speakup-enabled kernels

[Victor Tsaran]

Hi, Janina and Bill!
On his FTP site Bill also has directories D1 and D2 which are non-iso copy
of the Redhat distribution. I downloaded the kernel-2.4.2-2.i686.rpm hoping
that this one was also speech-enabled, but I don't think it is. Am I
wrong,Bill?
Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled kernels


> They're in the .iso images. They're major downloads, of course, since
> they're a CD ROM's worth of data. But, that's the same problem from the
> Redhat site and its mirrors. Advantage and difference is that Bill Acker's
> are speakup enabled.
>
>  On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>
> > But, I could find the boot disks only. Where are the regular kernels
then?
> > Thanks,
> > Victor
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Cc: "Speakup List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:51 PM
> > Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled kernels
> >
> >
> > > Yes, Victor, we have full distributions which are fully speakup
enabled.
> > > That means that the kernels are already patched with speakup, and the
boot
> > > disks are already speakup enabled. All a user need do is to indicate
their
> > > synth and it's connection point at the first (non speaking) prompt.
After
> > > that, the install is speakup enabled, with full screen review via the
> > > numeric keypad.
> > >
> > > At least, this is how the Redhat distributions genned by Bill Acker
work.
> > > Someone else will have to speak up for slackware and debian, as I have
no
> > > experience there.
> > >
> > > PS: Pun intended.
> > >  On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello, listers!
> > > > Yes, I did use Speakup for installation purposes mostly and when the
> > machine was in all kinds of troubles. However, today someone mentioned
that
> > one can download Speakup-enabled kernels. Are these boot kernels that
people
> > talked about? Does anybody have regular kernels with Speakup already
> > compiled in?
> > > > Best,
> > > > Vic
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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