speakup fedora core howto
Janina Sajka
janina at rednote.net
Mon May 2 09:33:53 EDT 2005
To the contrary. The RTFM, in this instance, is sitting in the subject
line of this email thread.
>From the messages he's posted, it's very clear he hasn't read it very
carefully.
jim grimsby writes:
> Hi,
> This is the attitude below that turns off the new user!
> Quite often the user has know idea where to rtfm as you put it.
> If you are going to refer the user to documentation it might be a good
> idea to refair them to a section of the manual explaining what ever it
> is they are asking about.
> Also not every user understands what the manual is talking about.
> As far as gnopernicus goes I do not see a manual page nor a info page on
> it.
> It is not covered in any of the users guide I have seen so far.
> So where do we go to rtfm as you put it.
> Remember experts out there that you were a new user once.
> Also remember experts out there that in one place you are an expert in
> others you might be a novus.
> Remember experts who have decided to be teachers andsuporters of the
> program that reading manuals is good but a person needs to know what
> manual to read.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kenny Hitt
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 8:05 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: speakup fedora core howto
>
>
> Hi.
>
> Startx won't beep. You really need to go learn the basics of X.
>
> Once again! RTFM
>
> Kenny
>
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:56:16AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I have tried running gnopernicus in personal desktop type install and
> > also
> > in workstation type mode as well as server type. The personal desktop
> and
> > workstation types failed completely. The software was put onto the
> system
> > to run, but no speech in either of those installation types. tried
> both
> > telinit 5 and startx. Startx so far doesn't work in server type over
> here
> > but telinit 5 did work. I expect the custom type to do no better than
>
> > personal desktop or workstation. The startx command never gets to the
> > short beep on any of these installation types.
> >
> >
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