Speakup installation on lap top.

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Tommy:

As to whether there are pitfalls, certainly. But which would depend on 
what make and model unit you have and on how you need to use it. My 
portable is an 18 month old IBM Thinkpad T20. The primary pitfall on this 
machine is the fact that it's 9-pin serial port is turned off, by default. 
The second pitfall relates to its video system which is tricky to 
configure for X--not that we really need X just yet. Beyond that, I have 
several boot options configured in my lilo.conf that I can call up by 
single-letter aliases depending on what is (or is not attached) by way of 
a speech synthesizer at any particular time. I also use several scripts to 
switch network configurations, depending on where I am. Ditto for the 
modem.

As for presentations, I haven't worked that out myself. I do understand, 
however, that latex does good looking slides.

 On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Having got a fairly stable desk top system now, I'm thinking of flattening
> my lap top hard drive and putting Linux on it.  I propose to make my own
> kernel, since the bareapm.I that comes with Slackware has no speakup
> support.  This is no problem, as I can also use one of the root disks.  I
> do, however, have a couple of questions.
> 
> 1.  Has anyone encountered any problems/pitfalls of which I should be
> aware, either
> speakup-related, or generally, with installation to a lap top?
> 
> 2.  Quite often, I use my lap top to present some documents with graphics
> in them to sighted people.  I know that I can retrieve the text from such
> documents with the strings command, but is there anyway I can retain the
> formatting and graphics in their place?  Obviously an accessible method
> would be preferable, though it is not absolutely essential.
> 
> Any thoughts on this subject gratefully appreciated.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
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