Redhat 7.2 and Speakup

[Janina Sajka]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 TALMAGE at SOMTEL.COM wrote:

> I finally figured out that Speakup doesn't like my
> LiteTalk.  I switched to a DoubleTalk Lt and got my kernel to boot.

Strange. I don't understand this at all. I use a Litetalk all the time. I 
have one of those expensive ones with both a serial and a parallel port.

> Speakup started talking fine, and then when it got to the login prompt, the
> speech died.

Do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a character based login with speakup. You have the 
default runlevel, which is graphical and doesn't talk. Fix this 
permanently by editing /etc/inittab and modifying the line that says:

id:5:initdefault:

You want to change ':5:' to ':3:'

> One thing I did
> notice which may or may not be relevant is, that it said U.S. key map.  I
> did check the Speakup key map option when building the kernel though.

If you have screen review, you're OK. If not, that's the problem, but it 
can be fixed easily enough. Off the top of my head, I don't recall where 
the map lives. So, how about telling us whether or not the above takes 
care of getting into linux with speech. Then, if you don't have screen 
review on the numeric keypad, I can look this up for you--or someone else 
can just jump in before that.