fedora 7 doubletalk boot freeze?

[Janina Sajka]

A couple of comments ...

I doubt there will ever be a fix for anything on the Fedora 7 kernels
any longer. Basically, 7 has been superceded by 8, and shortly by 9.

I have a machine that had similar behaviors some kernels ago, possibly
as far back as Fedora 7. It dorve me nuts, as I'm sure it's driving you
nuts.

Now the good news. I've not had this problem recently. Same machine, but
the kernels, and the Speakup in the kernels, is much newer.

So, my suggestion. Prepare to go to edora 9. Perhaps your frustrations
with this issue will also go.

Janina

Tom Fowle writes:
> Greetings from a , list and speakup relative newby.
> 
> 
> I have Speakup with a doubletalk PC under fedora 7 on a 1 gig Asis P2b board
> with a processor upgrade to the 1 gig speed. 340Mb ram.
> 
> Installed with Bill Acker's help.
> 
> It freezes on boot before finding the synth, maybe a third of the boot tries.
> screen says only:
> "booting the kernel"
> and never proceeds further.
> 
> When it works, it works just fine.
> 
> When it freezes it needs a complete shut off with the nasty power button
> or it will never start.
> 
> So far as I can tell, booting without speakup this doesn't happen.
> 
> I've tried changing the doubletalk's address jumpper to a couple
> different locations resulting in the same behavior.
> 
> I did not update the kernel after install when I did the suggested 
> update all 
> 
> Any ideas, other than "get a new computer" would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Tom Fowle
>  
> 
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