Extremely puzzled

[Charles Crawford]

Did you make sure you pressed the number pad key?  From your description, 
it may be something as simple as that.

-- charlie Crawford.
At 05:30 AM 9/16/03 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
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