Good news

[Saqib Shaikh]

First of all, there are still 3 Speakup boot disks. One for IDE, and two
different types of SCSI (not sure of the difference).

I don't know for sure, but I'm told you can also boot any kernel (including
the Speakup ones) right from the CDROM - just type
speakup.i/speakup1.s/speakup2.s at the boot prompt.

Saqib
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tommy Moore" <tmoore at cmrc.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Good news


> Actually from what I've seen they've removed the Speakup kernels from the
> slackware-current distribution. Not sure if this is asking too much but
> having speakup in the default installation kernel would be really nice
> sice if people don't need it they won't be using it and then the cds will
> talk from the start instead of having to make boot floppies.
>
> Tommy
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Having just finished my exams yesterday, I've been talking to Patrick
> > Volkerding (aka Mr Slackware). He's very interested in accessibility. As
you
> > may know he already has Speakup boot-disks in the original distribution.
> >
> > I asked him if he would consider adding Emacspeak, and there and then,
he
> > did it! He asked if you needed other software to use different devices,
and
> > I told him you needed Emacspeak-SS for other synths. He added this too!
And
> > then, he added BrlTTY as well, and is considering adding Flite and
NFBTrans
> > (though maybe not in 8.1).
> >
> > So all in all, with Redhat having Emacspeak, Debian coming with
> > Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/Brltty, and Slackware coming with all of
> > Speakup/Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/BrlTTY and offering to compile the
Doubletalk
> > PC driver into the default kernel, Linux and console accessibility
really
> > does look good (IMHO).
> >
> > Just thought I'd let you guys know this, and look forward to Slackware
8.1
> > being released.
> >
> > Saqib
> >
> >
> >
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