red hat 8.0 and the Speakup Modified

[Thomas Ward]

Hi. Well, I guess you probably did alot of unnecessary work down grading to
7.1. You probably only needed a library which was easy enough to install,
and then you could have installed that application under 7.2 which is much
better than 7.1.
Often times when something says system requirements 7.1 it will work fine on
later versions assuming you have the dependancies or newer versions of them.
That's my two cents. Hope this helps. You might want  to upgrade to 8 when
it comes out.