Good news

[Tommy Moore]

Thanks fro the correction. Saw an article about an hour ago that said you 
could choose the kernel to boot.

Tommy


On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Saqib Shaikh wrote:

> 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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