From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=linserver.complex) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16O3BY-0007OP-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:49:28 -0500 Received: (from gnowak1@localhost) by linserver.complex (8.11.4/8.10.2) id g08KmwW00311 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:48:58 -0600 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:48:58 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: cd burners, was: Re: RH7.2 w/Speakup enabled Message-ID: <20020108144858.B297@uic.edu> References: <20020107143518.H380@uic.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from wacker@octothorp.org on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:38:11PM -0700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 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: Ok, but again, not everyone runs redhat. I for example run slackware, which doesn't do such hardware detection leaving me to read the cd writing howto. Yes, I know I could've picked redhat, but there was slackware's zipslack modified into zipspeak, and there was my drive entirely taken up by a fat32 partition, and there was me wanting to have a easy shot at linux (grin). So, that's how that story goes. Greg On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:38:11PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > Actually, one of each. The first system has SCSI, so, as you say, it was > a piece of cake. The laptop has an ATAPI CD burner. When i got to the > kernel parameters screen in the installation, I found that RH7.1 had > detected the burner and placed "hdc=ide-scsi" on the line that would be > fed to lilo. I just moved the cursor to the right of the statement and > added the all important "speakup_synth=audptr". > > > > > Bill > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > Then you must have a SCSI drive, but not everyone does. You were lucky there. > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup