Slackware + Speakup?

[shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au]

Hi steve, 
What I wound up doing, is I copied a 2.4.18 kernel image onto a debian 
boot floppy and booted from it.
I went through the steps and all, however, I had the module symbol
problem too but I went through the steps never the less.
once I got to a point where I could reboot etc, I started to install
debian and then I went and built my kernel on my new debian system.
that's the way I handled it and I've never looked back.
hth
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Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:55:10AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> This isn't a really specific question, but I have been using Slackware
> for several years now and still love it!  I recently attempted a
> switch to Debian for the same reasons Chuck considered - package
> management.  But I came right back to Slackware.  The basic tools for
> doing things like configurations and even package construction is all
> by shell scripts and I even have figured out how to build my own
> slackware compatible package for Exim now.
> 
> I never did get Debian 3.0 to come up with speakup because the
> available speakup bootdisks for debian are out of date and the drivers
> do not match, thus you can only get so far when installing debian 3.0
> with speakup from scratch.  I guess existing debian machines upgrade
> ok but I could never succeed from a previous slackware or empty box.
> I kept getting unresolved external symbols while loading any modules.
> 
> One thing I enjoy about slackware is being able to easily get "under
> the hood" and look at all the pieces.  I have found once in a while
> that a slackware binary package for a given application doesn't quite
> work to my wishes so I ended up uninstalling the package and rolling
> in the original tarball instead.  I had to do that with php and emacs
> for sure.  With php, the package did not include postgresql support
> and I wanted that; and with emacs, something got funky when I tried
> using cperl-mode so I reinstalled those applications from scratch with
> my own configurations.  I will usually start with the provided
> packages and if they work well, then so be it; but if I have trouble,
> it is easy enough to remove the package and do otherwise.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:03:43PM -0500, Kody Dossey wrote:
> > Hello list! :)
> > 
> > I was curious if anyone is using Slackware Linux + Speakup? If so, would
> > you like to share your thoughts/experiences with me about any
> > problems/recommendations/loving rants? 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Kody
> > 
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Shaun Oliver

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