Speakup and phoebe

[Lorenzo Prince]

So how do I get Gnome to work on my Slackware 9.0 system?  When I type
'gdm' which I thought was the command to start Gnome, it does nothing.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

E Pluribus Unix

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:

> So, why did Redhat choose to drop Speakup from their next version?  It
> sounds like maybe somebody didn't like the modified kernel.  So, they
> should have done like Slackware and gave the user a choice of a
> Speakup-enabled kernel or not.  BTW, Slackware 9.0 just came out and has
> Gnome 2.2 with accessibility plug-ins, and still supports Speakup.  It is
> down to a boot disk and two root disks to install, but also has a third
> option which is some sort of boot manager on a separate disk that will
> supposedly boot a CDROM even on computers that otherwise can't boot one.
> I don't know if this will speak or not, but it sure sounds interesting.  I
> sure hope Redhat reconsiders dropping Speakup as it is a major step in the
> wrong direction.
>
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