Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

[Erik Heil]

Hello,
Bare in mind that the Dectalk Express driver may have bugs in it.  I'm not 
even sure if its available in the stable Orca tree.  As far as Orca's 
concerned, its not available in Sid yet.  Looking at the status of Gnome 
in Experimental, it looks like to me that All the Gnome 2.16 stuff is 
built for Amd64.  Since I don't have access to an Amd64 box at present 
(Sparc64 I do), its not available to me even in Experimental.  However, 
when it does become available in Unstable, I'd be more than willing to 
post a little review for any of you who may be interested in it.  From 
what I've heard of in Forefox 3 betas, it looks very promissing for what's 
coming down the pike.

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Beth Hatch wrote:

> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:59:13 -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 is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad
> 
> 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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