Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

[Anthony Creapeau]

I started out with VMWare and Ubuntu as a virtual machine on my  laptop. It
slows to a crawl even with a high end system. From my personal experience I
would just go with the dual boot setup, which is the way I'm using it now.
The computer is much more responsive this way.  HTH

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Beth Hatch
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:32 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

Hello to everyone,

Thank you Janina, Steve, Rick, and others who responded to my questions
about the Thinkpad.  I've been playing with the new computer and so I'm a
bit behind in my email.<smile>  Tomorrow I'm going to try to install using
two Linux machines as Janina and others have suggested while I'm at school.
I have a Linux desktop there that I use, and that way I can get someone to
read a screen or two for me to make sure I don't blow up anything.<smile>
I've installed Fedora several times on my home desktop machine just fine,
but this will be the first time I've tried a dual boot system.  I'll be
trying the VMware solution too as suggested by Steve because it sounds cool
and because it might help to know these things while I am seeking
employment.  Thank you all once again for your suggestions and support, I'll
let you know if/when I make any progress.

Thanks again!!

Beth


Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Beth:
>
> I don't know about the docking station serial port, but if it 
> registers as /dev/ttyS0, or some such, you should be OK. Of course, 
> you may not know about this until after you've installed Linux on your
Thinkpad.
>
> I would suggest you can accessibly install FC6 using speech on a 
> second computer, probably your desktop. You need to have both machines 
> connected over tcp/ip networking, and then you can use telnet from the 
> desktop to the Thinkpad to install
> FC6 on the Thinkpad.
>
>
> Janina
>
> PS: Congrats on getting the 60. I'm still using an X31, but I'm a 
> great fan of Thinkpads myself.
>
>
> Beth Hatch writes:
>   
>> 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>
>>     
>
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