Installing Speakup separate from Linux.

[Janina Sajka]

Anytime, Anna. And, if the Pogo folks need to talk with one of us to get 
your machine working properly, that's OK, too. I think we'd all be 
delighted to have them knowledgable about speakup and how we interface to 
computers.
 On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Anna Schneider wrote:

> 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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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
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