interesting experiment.

[Octavian Rasnita]

So speakup should be kind of part of Linux?
Does this mean that it is not a standalone screen reader, but one that
(maybe) need to be compiled in Linux kernel or something?

Thanks.
Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: interesting experiment.


> No, Octavian, you didn't understand correctly. By the time the
> boot process has come along far enough to be able to load
> anything into your card, it's too late for Speakup. It isn't
> written to support such things. It has to be loaded where it has
> to be loaded.
>
> End of story.
>
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>
> > Hi Janina,
> >
> > You have asked me about why I don't understand that I can't use pine
with
> > emacs. Now you ask me why I can't understand that I can't use the
DecTalk
> > PC1 with Speakup.
> >
> > Well, here is the text I have read from another list member:
> >
> > as for the problem with the dec-talk pc, the issue is, needing
dictionary
> > files to be loaded into the synth at boot time.
> > You can't do this until the file systems are properly mounted. So, if
one
> > gets a kernel panic, you wouldn't know about it because you wouldn't
have
> > speech from kernel load.
> >
> > So I've understood that "You can't do this until the file systems are
> > properly mounted"
> > OK, and I've asked if I can use it after that point.
> > Is something that isn't clear?
> > Didn't I understood correctly?
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Teddy,
> > orasnita at home.ro
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: interesting experiment.
> >
> >
> > > Once again, what part of "no" don't you understand? the 'n' or
> > > the 'o?'
> > >
> >
> >
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>
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