Extremely puzzled

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Actually, you don't want to remap the keyboard at all, as the speakup keymap is hard-coded into the kernel. Newer CVS releases of speakup changed this 
behavior, but with speakup 1.5 included in slackware you must skip the remapping step. It sounds to me as though you remapped your keyboard. If so, 
remove the rc.keymap file, like this:
rm /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap
you must do this while logged in as root. Now, reboot the system. This should take care of the problem, as it will disable whatever keymap was loading and 
taking over speakup's keys.
HTH


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 05:30:49 -0400, Chris 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...
>