My redhat doesn't speak

[Janina Sajka]

Where did you get the Red Hat 9 that you used to install? In particular,
what kernel version are you running? What do you get from:

rpm -q kernel

If there is not a "spk2" on the end of your kernel filename, you need to
get a Speakup enabled kernel from:

http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/

In order to get the best speech performance, you may need to create a
new initrd image to load the Speakup driver for your speech synth. For
example, if your synth is ltlk, the mkinitrd command should include:

--with=speakup_ltlk

However, I have no idea whether this will fit on a boot floppy. Haven't
looked into that. So, let me ask the threshold question about the boot
floppy. Why? Why did "it become necessary" to boot from a floppy, as you
write?


Krister Ekstrom writes:
> From: Krister Ekstrom <crisekstrom at bredband.net>
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> Hi  speakup,
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>   I have installed Red hat 9.0 on my computer in a dual-boot
>   environment. It became necessary however to start Red hat from
>   a boot diskette. This is no problems, the boot diskette works as
>   expected exept for one thing: Speakup doesn't start. I guess one has
>   to put in some command in one config file or another, i don't know
>   what file though. If someone familiar with Red hat 9 could point me in the
>   right direction, i'd be very greatful. I couldn't find anything in
>   the installation guide but maybe there's something i've overlooked?
>   TIA
> 
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> /Krister
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Janina Sajka
Email: janina at rednote.net		
Phone: (202) 408-8175

Director, Technology Research and Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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Chair, Accessibility Work Group
Free Standards Group
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