speakup and ubuntu

[Chris Norman]

Oh right.

I am running Ubuntu, I thought that /etc/inittab was a generic file, shared 
by all the distros. Is that not the case?

To be fair, I'm still relatively new to linux myself.

Cheers,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: speakup and ubuntu


> Hi.
>
> Your answer won't work in Ubuntu.  In the Linux world, it's best to only
> answer questions about distros you are actually running.
>
>          Kenny
>
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:09:02PM -0000, Chris Norman wrote:
>> You may as well just put runlevel 3 as your default in /etc/inittab. Then
>> just run startx (I think) to run the GUI, and use control+alt+f1 to 
>> switch
>> to the first console. X runs on tty7, so just use altf7 to run the gui
>> console. DOn't know how you'd stop it. Run `init 3` I imagine.
>
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