Installing Speakup separate from Linux.

[Anna Schneider]

Hello.  I'm including the message to whic I am responding this time.  
Sorry about the previous time.  My brain has been more fried in the pat 
few weeks then it's been in ages.

That all makes sense and after I ordered my computer today, which I did do 
much excitement, I forwarded various links to them to look at and 
emphasized that I want to be in communication with the technical people 
there.  I think it should all be fine.

Thank you again for much help.

Anna


On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Anna:
> 
> I'm not sure who you're responding to, because you didn't retain any of 
> the message you're responding to. Since several of us wrote you, including 
> me, I'm taking the liberty to say that this message below is not correct, 
> from the perspective of my earlier note today. There's no reason to patch 
> a kernel tree and compile a new kernel in order to get speakup into a Red 
> Hat 7.2 installation. Red Hat has something called the Red Hat Package 
> Manager, rpm for short, that will be very familiar to the Pogo people. 
> It's a simple way of swapping a new kernel, one that has speakup in it, 
> into your installation.
> 
> The difference between the rpm approach and compiling a new kernel is 
> major. Using rpm, the Pogo people can have you up to speed in a matter of 
> minutes. Doing the kernel route is at least an hour for an experienced 
> person, and many many hours for someone doing it for the first time.
>  On 
> Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Anna Schneider wrote:
> 
> > Okay.  I need to read some how to documents before my computer actually 
> > arrives.  I didn't unerstand most of that.  *grin*  The files to do either 
> > of those options are on the Speak Up web site right?  I saw a file called 
> > something like speakup.tar.gc or some such that I am assuming is Speakup 
> > without a distribution, or Speakup I can stick on top of a distribution.
> > 
> > Anna
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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