now speakup won't speak on my fedora core 6 installation

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I uninstalled the kernel and did an install when installing the kernel. 
Is there any point in downloading the source rpm for the kernel and 
recompiling it?  I installed the rpm like it says on the speakupmodified.org 
site to keep my fedora kernels with speakup up to date.  After installing 
this rpm should I remove the exclude lines from /etc/yum.conf or leave them 
in?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: now speakup won't speak on my fedora core 6 installation


> Nick Gawronski writes:
>> Hi, I have added the following lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>
>> title           fedora core 6
> f you want grub to beep, stick a ctrl-g in there, perhaps before the 'F'
> in Fedora.
>
>> When I upgraded the kernel
> Suggest you do install for kernels and not upgrade. That way you will
> still have the older, presumably working kernel until you establish the
> new one is OK. You can always 'rpm -e' the old kernel once you know the
> new one is good.
>
>
>> I am able to login
>> as root to my fedora core 6 system and even if I do modprobe
>> speakup_dectlk I get no speech and hear no beep when pressing back space
>
> With Speakup built into the initrd you should have had speech through
> the entire boot process, but I have seen this sometimes not working over
> the past half year or so.
> It has sometimes been bad enough for me that I've had to reseat my RS232
> connector and power cycle both computer and external synth. Go
> figure.
>
> I presume you're issuing the modprobe natively on the console? And not
> over ssh?
>
> PS: I'm currently on the same kernel as you, but with a Doubletalk.
>
> Janina
>
>
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