From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5C1121EF69C; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:27:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0D61EF516 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:27:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4FE388859 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:27:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rUgKUPgtiEcy for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:27:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08F438886B for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:27:54 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mta1.math.wisc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-101.0 required=6.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_20, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (erdos.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.25]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:27:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.14] (ppp-69-218-137-10.dsl.mdsnwi.ameritech.net [69.218.137.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D7E24216D4 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:27:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <53AF79A2.5030502@math.wisc.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:27:46 -0500 From: "John G. Heim" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: installing slackware on a very fast machine References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 02:27:58 -0000 Does slack have a grup-update command? On debian & ubuntu that reads /etc/default/grub and if you define a GRUB_INIT_TUNE in there you get music, or at least a beep, at boot. The GRUB_INIT_TUNE setting is converted to parameters for the play directive in the grub config file. On a debian system, you don't want to edit the grub config file directly but you could if you had to. I have no idea how slackware handles all this. One thing about this whole discussion that has been bothering me though. A fast system should not result in fast speech. Seriously, I've run speakup on small super computers. I guarantee I've run it on machines faster than you have in your home. I don't think the speech rate has anything to do with the speed of the computer. Maybe a little. Like the response time for key echo is determined by the speed of the computer. But the speech itself is not effected. On 6/28/2014 2:40 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I can try installing slackware on a couple old laptops. My reason for > being interested to put it on the amd at all is because I have an 80GB > sata hard drive and figured slackware would be ideal for that drive. I > can I think put archlinux on the 80GB drive too, but wanted to install > slackware since I've used slackware for a long time. My location changed > from Southern Maryland to Pennsylvania and in that moving process some of > my hard drives took some damage. One of them died shrotly after arriving > and it was 18 months out of warranty. So slackware is now no longer > usable for tower computers if you're using speakup. I read an article on > the web about installing emacspeak as a turnkey system and tried it with > no good results. Slackware doesn't beep when the boot prompt comes up by > default and my monitors all got donated to a charity as a result of the > move. Slackware of course has no system with a working espeak either. If > I get a monitor for this computer, I can get some help with timing between > computer startup and when the boot prompt hits the screen but that hasn't > happened yet. > > > > jude > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup