speakup status was Re: now playing live.

[Dawes, Stephen]

Janina,
I ran into a similar problem with compiling Kernel 2.4.17. With the help of Gene, we determined the problem to be that I was pointing to the wrong keymap. I was having the problem on a Redhat box, which I believe to be the distribution that you use. 

To fix my problem, I did 2 things.
1. comment out the keymap in the keyboard file, I believe the path is /etc/sysconfig/keyboard 
2. in the setup program, you just type setup at the command prompt when logged in as root, turn off keytables.

Hope this helps.


Steve Dawes
PH:  (403) 268-5527. 
Mailto:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca 



-----Original Message-----
From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net]
Sent: 2002 March 11 7:06 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: speakup status was Re: now playing live.


Hey, Kirk:

I wonder if the problem I ran into has anything to do with speakup's new 
changes, or the 2.4.18 kernel?

Yesterday afternoon I used cvs to patch a freshly downloaded 2.4.18. There 
were no errors, but when I booted my numeric keypad was very messed up. 
Screen review was sporadic--and seemed only to work, if it worked at all, 
with numlock off. When numlock was on, pressing the number keys on the 
numeric yielded numbers, but it yielded the wrong numbers, e.g. when I 
pressed 4, I heard 7. These numbers also became part of my command line.

Needless to say, I left 2.4.18 for my older reliable kernel! <grin>
 
On 11 Mar 2002, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Speakup newest changes in cvs include numlock support, the caplock
> beep and I can't remember what else.  I am not planning another
> official release for awhile.  I want to get the driver interface
> finished before I do.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> 

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