Obtaining Debian

Robert Spangler spangler.robert at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 13:45:08 EDT 2008


So you load the CD, hear the beep, tab and do speakup.synth=ltlk and hit 
enter?  I get nothing.  Do I need to wait a while?  I do hear the beep.


Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> My guess is that the module is loaded in the initrd, the "initial ram
> disk".
> 
> But mine comes up talking just fine here.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:59:52PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
>> If it is compiled as modules, though, how will the kernel know that is a  
>> valid kernel argument?
>>
>>
>> Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>>> Samuel,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:17:52PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>> I have updated
>>>> http://brl.thefreecat.org/mini-beep.iso
>>>> with the latest debian speakup modules (3.0.3+git20080724.dfsg.1-1),
>>>> which indeed fix the crash of ltlk.
>>>>
>>>> Samuel
>>> Confirmation. Works correctly, at least as far as the prompt for
>>> language choice. I went no further with it on this system at the
>>> moment.
>>>
>>> System here is an Intel 945, dual core P4 processor, SATA drive, 1 GB ram.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your work with this. Chuck
>>>
>>>
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