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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