From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay11-dav37.bay11.hotmail.com ([64.4.39.67] helo=hotmail.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1D8djs-0000FA-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:23:04 -0500 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 04:22:33 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 128.243.220.21 by BAY11-DAV37.phx.gbl with DAV; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:22:33 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [128.243.220.21] X-Originating-Email: [mikster4@msn.com] X-Sender: mikster4@msn.com From: "Michael Whapples" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:22:19 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Mar 2005 12:22:33.0669 (UTC) FILETIME=[81745F50:01C523D9] Subject: A few things X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:23:04 -0000 Hello, Thank you to all the people who told me where to find modified Debian installation media, it worked fine to set up Debian, my problem was typing "linux" as the kernel image instead of "speakup". Unfortunately Debian does not seem to suit me, in fat, I have tried a few distributions, and Slackware seems to be the one that suits me best. I just need some help with a couple of things with Slackware though. I am having problems with flite compiling on slackware. I have done some searches on the internet to find a solution, and I think I found a message on this list that said with the right patch it will compile. What is that patch, and where do I find it? I know I can use rpm packages with the rpm2tgz tool, but I find getting those rpm's seems to take time to download, so building from source is preferred. Also I would prefer to try and use festival for software synthesis rather than flite, but I can't work out how I start it in the start up scripts. If I add "festival --server" where "festival" includes the path to the binary, the system stops loading. I think it is running festival as a server as if you typed it at a command prompt, and like from the command prompt, it does not return to accept more commands. What would be the best way to start it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local? A more general question is what is a good web browser? Links2 has java script, but does not seem to have cookies. Elinks has cookies and very limited java script, but not enough for some websites I need to visit. I know that there is meant to be good accessibility support being built into Mozilla, but I don't think it is properly completed, any knowledge of that? From Michael Whapples "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience"