From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GT3Ty-0008VV-00 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:31:50 -0400 Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C34DAD7D8 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:31:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.internal ([10.202.2.161]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:31:48 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: ohFK1xCSfvCtf7fskTGotNJaWPE4LgPXT+kdTB5ejehl 1159479108 Received: from cq.ftml.net (24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.197.112]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEDCCE8A for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:31:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chuckh by cq.ftml.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GT3Tt-00020v-2D for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:31:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:31:45 -0400 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: up and running with 2.6.18 Message-ID: <20060928213145.GA7329@cq.ftml.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20060928205238.GA5048@cq.ftml.net> <20060928211821.GA339@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060928211821.GA339@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:31:50 -0000 Greg, I agree with you about the usefulness of the initrd, and that's why I have never mastered it before. In this case, I began with Shane's precompiled kernel package, which did use one, and I was looking for the simplest way to move up to 2.6.18. So at the moment, I am using 2.6.18 with an initrd prepared by the procedure Shane posted here. Not sure I see any difference so far. I am booting with speakup_quiet flag set on, and with speakup_synth set to ltlk. However, at the end of my rc.local I use speakwith to bring up a software synth. So I can start easily with or without my ltlk on the system. Maybe the initrd would permit configuring software speech much earlier in the boot process, but I have not messed with that. Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (34% of Full) Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh