up and running with 2.6.18

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Greg,

I agree with you about the usefulness of the initrd, and that's why I 
have never mastered it before. In this case, I began with Shane's 
precompiled kernel package, which did use one, and I was looking for the 
simplest way to move up to 2.6.18. So at the moment, I am using 2.6.18 
with an initrd prepared by the procedure Shane posted here.

Not sure I see any difference so far. I am booting with speakup_quiet 
flag set on, and with speakup_synth set to ltlk. However, at the end of 
my rc.local I use speakwith to bring up a software synth. So I can start 
easily with or without my ltlk on the system. 

Maybe the initrd would permit configuring software speech much earlier 
in the boot process, but I have not messed with that.

Chuck

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