Debian question

[Sean McMahon]

Oh yeah that's what I've heard is a good way to configure the bios.  Of co7urse
you'd need a lot of them or be able to slip cards in and out of computers with
ease.
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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: Debian question


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> Hey, Any chance this method could enable you to configure the BIOS? That
> would be really trippy if one could.  That would surely solve a big
> accessibility problem for a bunch of us.
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:18:22AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> > This probably won't really help you much because it's expensive and it's
> > not really a solution but I just thought I'd mention that there is a tool
> > that is really helpful in debugging boot problems. It's a PC Weasel.
> >
> > You put this card in your machine replacing the video card. The operating
> > system recognizes it as a video card except that instead of video output it
> > has a serial port. So you can connect a null-modem cable to it and another
> > machine running a terminal emulator and get the boot messages.  I use it a
> > lot when I have a machine that won't boot or when I'm trying to make a
> > bootable CD. It costs like $300 though.
> >
> > It really works well with speakup because it doesn't interfere with speakup
> > in any way. The operating system isn't aware that there is anything
> > different about the VGA card other than that it is an unrecognized type of
> > card. So it treats it like a generic VGA card.  If you have some kind of
> > problem, you can plug in the null-modem cable and get whatever is on the
> > screen, whether it be boot messages or a login prompt or whatever.
> >
> >
> > PS: I think I have a problem  similar to yours. I  installed the speakup
> > modified 2.6.12 kernel on a machine that had a unmodified 2.6.8 kernel. It
> > won't boot unless my external doubletalk  LE is connected and turned on.
> > And when it does boot, I get no speech. There is nothing wrong with my
> > synth. And speakup appears to know it's there since if it's turned off, it
> > won't boot at all. It's exam week so I haven't had time to check out what's
> > really happening yet.  I was running debian sarge so I am not sure that
> > you'll have any luck if you go back to sarge.
> >
> > Oh, one thing I'd suggest... Make sure your disk partitions aren't full.
> > Check especially / and /boot.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 05:08 PM 10/18/2005, Scott wrote:
> > >Folks, I have a question regarding a Debian install.
> > >First seeing as I have little hope of correcting the problems with my
> > >current Sid install as I can't get speech from Speakup, I am
> > >considering reinstalling Sarge.
> > >What I was wondering is how possible would it be to simply install
> > >over the current Sid installation. My thinking is that I can keep a
> > >number of apps that were previously working with Sarge before
> > >upgrading to Sid and most if not everything would be replaced when I
> > >install Sarge. I know this is probably an insane approach, but I of
> > >course would rather figure out why Speakup hangs while probing for
> > >the DoubleTalk external. I do not have another synth to connect so I
> > >have to use this one. It was working fine before I upgraded to the
> > >latest version of Sid and even replacing Lilo with Grub did not
> > >correct the problem. It also seems to matter little what kernel I'm
> > >running as I even grabbed a 2.6.13 and brewed a new kernel.
> > >Sure am lost on this one, but before I do get into this install, I
> > >thought I'd ask a few questions and maybe avoid loads of setting up
> > >again.
> > >I know wishfull thinking.
> > >
> > >Scott
> > >
> > >
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> >
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> > John G. Heim
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