intro and questions

[Georgina Joyce]

> I Also have a laptop running ubuntu. So if it would be easier to convert
> my laptop to Fedora, then I can do that as well. I just need input.
> 
> 
> My questions are the following for fedora:
> 1. When using the speakup connector, for ttsynth, I just coppy the make
> file into /usr/local/bin/
> then creat an alias to start speak up.
> 
I'm not a IBMtts user however, it doesn't make sense to put a make file
into a directory.  Do you mean the made binary file, after running make?

> 2. When I edit the file grub.conf I beleive it's in /boot. To specify
> the software speech at boot do I just scroll to the end of the file and
> type speakup_synth=sftsynth then restart the computer and hope to have
> speech at boot time?
> 
No, in an editor you open /boot/grub/menu.lst with root privillages.
You'll see a line that starts title, then possibly root then one
starting with kernel.  Something like this:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-fc9-i386-spk root=LABEL=/ 

Put a space after that line then add any kernel parameters such as
speakup's.  Check the documentation that you have the correct arguement.
I know that there's been some changes but I thought that the software
synth was:

speakup.synth=sftsyn

Gena