From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.83]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15qpIt-0003oL-00 for ; Tue, 09 Oct 2001 01:19:43 -0400 Received: from tony ([24.38.33.33]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011009051942.UEZD18284.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tony> for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:19:42 -0700 Message-ID: <001201c15082$2b8cc1a0$0300a8c0@elcjn1.sdca.home.com> From: "Tony Baechler" To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011008073745.009eac40@pop3.eskimo.com> Subject: Re: DEC Express problem Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:20:53 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hello Adam. I have at least a temporary batch file solution in place. However, perhaps I was unclear. I do not need to know how to set up the batch file, but what command line to pass to the kernel. I assume, then, that I should pass the root paramter, followed by ro for read only and the synthesizer setup, right? On my system, it is root=/dev/hda8 which is a logical drive. That is probably why lilo would not work. I have never found any clear documentation on why I would make it rw or ro when passing to the kernel. This seems to effect the file system somehow and I know not to use ro with umsdos, but am not sure otherwise. It seems to read and write fine regardless. The DEC Express problem I mentioned seems to be a new thing with version 0.10. I never had that problem before and there seems to be no way around it. I can temporarily reset it by echoing "p" to /proc/speakup/voice but as soon as I shut up speech it resets itself again. I would like some way around this short of compiling a kernel until I have more experience on the admin end. Yes, I am positive that lilo would not work. I installed it twice and it always bombed out. I have worked around the problem by copying a working kernel to the Windows end and using loadlin. If I hold down "z" while rebooting, I have a program which I wrote to automatically exit the standard autoexec.bat and switch to Linux instead. I will compile and upload it if anyone else is interested. Also, Adam, have you got a2 (the Apple II emulator) working under Linux? I know it compiles, but has a bad habbit of constantly repeating track and sector information. There is a patch to fix that or a line to remove or something, but I am not sure what it is. If you could please look into this I would appreciate it. Thanks.