Debian question

[Scott Howell]

Thanks CHuck and yes I wish I had those packages installed, but I've  
been lucky till now. I have never had a problem with the external  
doubletalk until now either so what has broken the works, I can't  
imagine, but its incredibly odd that its during the time at which  
Speakup probes the ports. That makes me wonder if it has anything at  
all to do with the upgrade or not. I thought I had a pretty good idea  
of how the box boots, but I wonder if I'm missing something here. I  
know when speaking to Kirk, he wasn't sure either what could cause  
this unless a piece of hardware went flaky on me, but that doesn't  
make snese either. I can put a Knoppix cd in there and boot with  
speech no problem so I really am at a loss.

Scott

On Oct 18, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Scott,
>
> I can't answer your question about the irregular reinstall, but I
> thought I would assure you that there is nothing inherently wrong with
> using a Sid system with the external double talk. I am doing that with
> no trouble, and have a 2.6.12 kernel. Be sure once you get a new  
> system
> up that you install packages called "apt-listbugs" and "apt- 
> listchanges"
> which will alert you during an upgrade if you are headed for  
> trouble. No
> guarantee, of course, Sid is risky they say, but you can at least
> decline to proceed with an upgrade if something you are upgrading has
> known bugs. I began with Sarge when it was "testing" and moved to Sid
> before Sarge went "stable", and have managed to avoid serious problems
> with the help of those two packages.
>
> Chuck
>
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