Extremely puzzled

[Chris]

OK, I'm a bit befuttled here...  I am extremely new to linux.  I literally
know minus to nothing hardly...  I only know just barely and I emphacize,
barely, know enough to get me by...  Anyhow, I am using an accent S A on
/dev/ttyS0 and have my linux system set up on /dev/hdb1 as I have two hard
disks, and am running Windows m E on c: which by the way, I do plan on
ditching in the long run...

here is the problem that I ran into.  Lorenzo Prince, once trying to help me
yesterday with installing Slackware version 9, with Speakup.  All went
beautifully, until I ran into a bad situation.  We can't find the speakup
mapped keyboard in the list of keyboard maps...  Yet, the installer said you
could skip that step altogether unless you are running a keyboard besides a
standard U.S. 1o1 setup.  lorenzo told me though that I had to map the
keyboard in there as if I didn't and used the standard, then my speakup
navigational keys wouldn't work.  Well... he was right...  Everything
installed flawlessly, except that now, speakup will not let me navigate and
move around the screen...  like, if I hit the 7 key, to move up the screen
by line, it won't do it.  I will here something real weird like either 1, or
5, or something.  i know that isn't written on the screen though, as it's
percistent.  no, I didn't set a frame buffer size in lilo; I just used the
standard Linux console.  I hope that it doesn't have to do with the x system
or gnome or the fact that I literally installed every single package that
was included.  I figure I'd rather have far too much, than far too little,
you know?  lorenzo told me that he knew in Redhat there was a speakup
keyboard layout, but I sure don't see it in the list under Slackware.

i just booted straight to the CD, with no floppy, and typed:

speakup.i speakup_synth=acntsa


That got it up and talking at that point.  Then a corse, I had to pass that
to the boot loader, lilo.  Which by the way, is installed currently on my
mbr of this machine.

I didn't create a linux Swap partition as I was told that since I had 320 mb
of ram, it really wasn't a requirement.  I always thought it was, but o
well...  i really at this point, just don't know what on earth Lorenzo and I
may have failed to see...  Could someone please suggest either on or off
list, to either him or I, what we may should do?  preferably you'll probably
be better off for now anyway, talking to him about it then he can help me
out as like i said, I'm so knew to this, that if you started talking
mapping, or mounting points etc, you're gonna lose me right away...

Any help is greatly appreciated.


Chris.