Good news

[Gene Collins]

hi.  I don't know if other screen readers use it, but compiling the
doubletalk pc driver into the kernel is definitely not good for speakup
users.  Better to compile it as a module and load it if necessary. 
Otherwise, you'll break doubletalk access for Speakup users.

Gene

>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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