This could be a problem

Gregory Nowak greg at romualt.dhs.org
Sun May 26 12:54:05 EDT 2002


This has been an issue in the 2.4.5 kernel as well with 8.0. In addition, it has also been an issue with some of the other 2.2.19 images.
Greg


On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:24:25AM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> As some of you know, Slackware Linux 8.1 is in beta test status now.  It
> has reached what is being called "rc1."  This means release candidate 1.
> Yet, none of the pre-compiled kernels have Speakup in them.  I decided to
> try and rectify this by taking the bare.i kernel's config file and
> building a Speakup-enabled kernel based on it.  Unfortunately, the Speakup
> kernel came out to over 1 MB and a warning came up stating that it was too
> large to boot from a floppy.  So, it looks like for Speakup to work in
> Slackware 8.1 with a 2.4.18 kernel, some options are going to have to be
> removed.  Just thought this would be a useful heads up so that we can
> resolve this before Slackware 8.1 becomes final.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
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