Thinkpad Saga Continues

[Brent Harding]

The strangest thing I found when installing Ubuntu Edgy Eft from the live CD 
with sighted assistance  on my old machine was that even though I used the 
screen reader option, Orca wouldn't speak at all before the installation, 
but it came right up after I logged in after the reboot. It doesn't seem to 
be running too bad for 256 mb of ram on a 1 gig processor. I haven't done a 
lot with it yet though because of a bad spare keyboard that has letter keys 
that stick together. I think I will replace it with a KVM switch because I 
also got my wireless keyboard that is fairly new broken trying to reset it, 
because I must've poked the recessed button wrong. I think now that it's 
installed things will work fairly well once I replace Festival with Dec Talk 
or something.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tony seth" <lp800 at myfreedombox.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues


> Hi all:  Since we're on the subject of thinkpads, I've got a bit of a
> poser too.  First, I've tried a few different distros on this critter,
> and here's the thing...
> I can get grml to boot, but, it doesn't pick up the doubletalk when I
> specify it to the grml prompt, however, when I am finished booting, and
> echo it to /proc/speakup/synth_name, it comes right up.
> So, I thought I'd try it with slackware, and no dice, even after the
> boot process completes, I know it completes because I can run the eject
> command and it releases the cd from the drive.  Is this a bios problem,
> or is there someplace else I should be looking?  By the way, I did get
> the 6.1 ubuntu to work too, but I like my text console better just
> now... any help would be most welcome, as I'm running xp right now, I
> kinda' liked it when I found out that xp won't even see a linux
> partition so now I know that when I reinstall it on this beast I can do
> a duel-boot on it and use it to test the linux version of Audio Quake
> and still play my winders-based games too...
> Thanks much!
>
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