redhat 8.0 installation

redhat 8.0 installation

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

Hi everyone,
I sent this question off to someone earlier today from work, but in case
that person was not able to get back to me today, I was hoping I could get
an answer tonight for this problem:
I installed redhat 8.0 on a computer with a limited drive.
I installed the server package.
This is a Pentium, with 128 MB ram, I think it is a 333 MHz processor.
I am using a double talk synth - external.
It did speak throughout the install.
Although I thought it said something about insufficient space when I began
the install, it completed the install and reported that it was installed
successfully.
When I booted it up, I had no speech.
So following the how to, I did the following:
control + alt + F1
root
then enter
my password
then enter
I backspaced, and heard the beep
I typed:
setserial /dev/ttys0 uart none
then I pressed enter
modprobe speakup_ltlk
then I pressed enter
I repeated this several times, even with a few re-boots with no luck.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Glenn.

Re: redhat 8.0 installation

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi, Glenn.
The reason you got no speech during startup is you failed to add the speakup
line speakup_synth=ltlk to your boot loader commands during the Red Hat
installation.
This is not necessary on new versions of speakup and Red Hat/Fedora, but was
necessary on 8.0 which I guess that information was dropped from the howto
since no one else is using 8.0.
There was a dialog that asked you to pass any special commands to the boot
loader and you failed  to tell your loader to load speakup.
The reason the  "modprobe speakup_ltlk" line isn't working is that this only
works on modern versions of speakup.
The version of speakup that came with Red Hat 8.0 is very old, and to get it
working you'll need to add the line:
speakup_synth=ltlk
to the kernel append line of the boot loader's conf file. If you accepted
the default boot loader grub the file is
 /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Hth.