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[209.169.193.44]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id s62sm7221885qga.28.2014.06.29.09.03.00 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3FB5E8BF220B43B2A7855B0396EB23A3@train> From: "Rob Hudson" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <53B02CD3.2030701@math.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <53B02CD3.2030701@math.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: slackware on a fast machine Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:02:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18197 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 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: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:03:06 -0000 I have a few machines like that sitting around, and have been considering setting up my own local debian mirror for situations when I don't have an outside connection. Is it just a matter of using wget on something like us.debian.org? Or is there a master archive that can be downloaded? ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 10:12 AM Subject: Re: slackware on a fast machine >I suspect that when speakup wasn't working with a particular keyboard it >wasn't the keboard itself. Probably speakup wasn't loaded. There could be >timing issues between USB and PS2 keyboards but I don't think that speakup >itself cares about the kind of keyboard you use. > > How short on hardware are you? When I had to deal with a slow internet > connection, I set up my own debian mirror. I have no idea how hard that is > to do in slackware. But for a mirror that you are going to use yourself, > all you need is an old P4 or even a 486. I think the debian mirror takes > about 16Gb of space. I don't know how things are where you live but around > here, machines like that are free for the taking. People give them away to > avoid paying the recycling fee. > > I'll bet if you ask around at your local maker space or on the local lug, > you'll get offers for a dozen machines that could serve as a mirror. > > On 6/29/2014 6:48 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> I just remembered something and why this is I can't figure. The >> speakup_ltlk module in speakup.s in slackware and possibly also in the >> Linux kernel unless it was patched requires a ps/2 keyboard to be used to >> boot up the computer. I remember on an earlier slackware installation >> switching out keyboards to a usb keyboard and I couldn't get speech >> working when trying to boot into slackware until I switched that USB >> keyboard out for a ps/2 again. In that move, all the ps/2 keyboards I >> have also got donated. Slackware does respond to a three-fingered salute >> on the usb keyboard I have and does respond to typing on that keyboard >> otherwise but that's as far as I can go here. This is using an amd k8 >> athelon machine too. If I remember properly, this also happened on an >> intel machine I was using. Now I'm wondering if this happens to any >> other >> slackware speakup users using usb keyboards. It could be my particular >> brand keyboard is the problem or it could be this effects more than one >> brand and model of usb keyboard I don't know. Aside from that, I can't >> get any audible indication as to when the boot: prompt comes up on the >> screen so I don't know if I ever keyed in the boot parameters at the >> right >> time during the past few days either. When I get slackware any more, I >> use bittorrent and let that run overnight and burn DVD's in the afternoon >> of the next day since the distributor of slackware boxed sets will not >> package those shrink wrapped sets well enough to prevent breakage of >> cases >> and sometimes disks inside those cases and this is happening for people >> who have a slackware subscription. >> >> I'll put archlinux on this 80GB disk and hope Slackware improves a few >> things eventually. The faq files on slackware.com are outdated in that >> they don't refelect slackware's move from multiple floppy disk >> distribution to cd's and DVD's distributions. It is unfortunate the >> linux-slackware email list on yahoogroups.com had to be closed down since >> it was being misused by people who didn't even know what Linux is let >> alone the slackware distribution is but list moderators apparently >> couldn't manage those problems. I could restart that mailing list and >> may >> be able to moderate it, I don't know if a lynx user on linux can do the >> necessary web work on yahoogroups to moderate lists yet. I have time >> since retiring from Southern Maryland and the Navy but that could change >> in a while too. >> >> >> >> jude >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >