From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id D62CD1EF820; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:55:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C096C1EF817 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:55:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D5F49DC32 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:55:19 -0600 (CST) 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 fiM9AjjnwYLM for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:55:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6106249D638 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:55:19 -0600 (CST) 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, 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 ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:55:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from [144.92.166.19] (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5D92B4200F7 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:55:19 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <5458F6E6.2070708@math.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:55:18 -0600 From: John G Heim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: finished with slackware 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: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:55:34 -0000 Are you trying to install slackware or is it already installed? I suspect the slackware installer has a kernel that does not contain the patch that letsspeakup talk to a litetalk. Once you getslackware installed, you could probably ssh to the machine, download and patch the kernel source code, and recompile the kernel. But I'd be surprised if a litetalk would work with the installer for any distro out there. Maybe vinux or sonar. If I was really desperate to use slackware, I'd probably try booting from a live slackware ISO and enable ssh. Then I'd ssh to the machine and do a manual install. I don't know about slackware but debian has a program called debbootstrap that installs all necessary packages except a kernel. So you have to partition the disk, run debbootstrap, install a kernel and reboot. If there is something like debbootstrap for slackware, it might not be too difficult. I recently switched to vinux and have been pretty happy. But I used to be a debian user so the transition to vinux wasn't too difficult. On 11/04/2014 05:00 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have an amd athelon k8 northbridge processor dual core machine with > 1,000MB of memory on it and a litetalk synthesizer attached to its only > serial port and keying in boot parameters almost as soon as starting the > machine also fails on this hardware. I can't do anything with slackware > on the laptops I have since if those have serial ports, those ports have 9 > holes rather than 9 pins and the litetalk synthesizers do not come with > dual serial plugs one with holes and the other with pins and I don't have > the necessary cable to bend the gender. When I moved out of Maryland I > left too much technology there by other people's choices and where I'm at > now I may be able to shop for technology once in a five year period of > time. Slackware needs to start emulating debian by making a boot beep > happen at the boot prompt on their installation disks otherwise whatever > other hardware I get in the future makes no sense to even consider that > distribution. The company is either unwilling or incapable of getting > their subscription shipping problem straightened out too. > > > > jude Twitter: @jdashiel > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup