slackware 12.0

[Jude DaShiell]

I did a little more experimentation with that version of slackware.  I 
found out it's not necessary to copy the speakup kernel onto the system so 
long as you do an install with only packages from the first disc.  If 
speakup is specified on the boot line and slackware finds it that's what 
slackware puts on the system without asking.  This is officially a bug and 
will be fixed in the next version most likely.  The installation is 
supposed to happen the way it's documented on http://slackbook.org.  Once 
the installation gets finished on disc1 and a boot into the new system has 
happened it's no problem to mount disc2 and run installpkg in the package 
subdirectories from disc2 to install any missing packages.  That's the way 
I got around that installation bug. Unfortunately my combination of 
monitor card slackware doesn't support so I can go as far as text only 
until a better card gets found.  What I have is an NVidia geforce 3410 
card and no color depth setting is correct for that card with a Gateway 
EV-910 Monitor and this version of slackware.  The good news is that's the 
only fatal found in Xorg.0.log when I try configuring and running 
xwindows.  I have a trident vga card in an older computer I may try later 
this week to see if I can get past this error and get gnome installed on 
slackware.  The flavor of gnome I have has orca available in it for 
slackware too.