limbo talking boot disk?

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Hi, Aaron,

     There's not much need to make a talking bootdisk for Limbo.  Speakup 
is included in the kernel that Red Hat ships.  There are no Speakup 
keymaps in Anaconda, however.  You can get around this by putting loadkeys 
and the old version of the Speakup keymap onto a floppy.  When Anaconda 
starts up, take the defaults for language and keyboard.  Then you can get 
to a shell on another console.  Just mount the floppy and run loadkeys 
from there.

     One word of caution about Limbo.  With the 686 and Athlon kernels,
they've changed the timing to something like 1000Hz.  This causes Speakup
to be slow, choppy, and hard to use.  You should be able to get relief by
playing with the timing variables in /proc/speakup/<synth>, but I didn't
have any luck.  My solution was to install a 586 kernel.  Once you're up
and running, grab the kernel from Rawhide.  That one has an up to date
version of Speakup, so you can use the regular keymap.




          HTH.
          Bill


On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Aaron Howell wrote:

> Hi there,
> Is anyone looking at doing a talking boot disk for the beta redhat 7.3.92 (aka limbo)?
> I'm wanting to test it at work if possible.
> if not, is there a set of instructions (or even general hints) as to how to make one's own talking install disk and I'll endeavor to do it myself.
> any advice much appreciated.
> Regards
> Aaron 
> 
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