Speakup and phoebe

[Juan Hernandez]

people can now use x-windows???


   How???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: Speakup and phoebe


> 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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