Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

Beth Hatch bhatch200 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 8 11:59:13 EST 2007


Hello Erik and all,

Thanks for your message.  Yes, I have seen the messages about installing 
Fedora via Telnet, that is definitely an option to consider.  As I am 
using this laptop for work and school purposes, I may need to use the 
Dectalk express with Speakup as well as speakup using software, this is 
all an experiment so far, I haven't really figured everything out yet.  
I just wanted some input while I play with things and try to make them 
work.<smile>

Thanks,

Beth

Erik Heil wrote:
> Hello,
> As far as installing Fedora 6 remotely, you can do so using telnet.  i.e. 
> if you have access to another Windows box (better yet, a Linux box) you 
> can do so via telnet.  Windows however would not be the best choice, as 
> cursor control is broken as far as Jaws/Window Eyes is.  If you go through 
> the archives, their have actually been posts on this very subject.  As I 
> currently don't use Fedora (most of the machines are running some flavor 
> of Sid), I can't speak from personal experience.
>
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Beth Hatch wrote:
>
>   
>> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:26:38 -0700
>> From: Beth Hatch <bhatch200 at comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> To: Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> Subject: Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I would like to set up a dual boot using Fedora 6 on my brand new
>> Thinkpad T60P laptop.  I already have a Linux desktop computer using the
>> Speakup modified Fedora 6, Gnome and Orca, etc.  Unfortunately, my
>> Thinkpad doesn't have an onboard serial port built into the system.  I
>> am wondering if Speakup would recognize my Dectalk Express hooked up to
>> either the docking station, which does have a serial port, or the
>> serial/parallel port bay adapter that I also purchased for this
>> computer.  The adapter fits into the ultrabay, you remove the DVD drive
>> and put the adapter into the bay instead.  I could probably install
>> Linux in graphical mode only using Gnome and Orca, but I would like to
>> have Speakup for use in text mode work and for the flexibility that
>> having Speakup access would provide for me.  Having Speakup available
>> would of course  allow me to  install Linux independently, also a very
>> important factor for me!!  I know I can use Speakup with software
>> synthesizers and speech dispatcher, but I need to get it installed
>> first.<smile>
>>
>>
>>    Any thoughts or information anyone has on this issue would be most
>> appreciated.  Thanks in advance!!
>>
>> Beth
>>
>>
>>
>>
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