From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailcity.com(fes3.whowhere.com[209.185.123.188]) (1769 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:smtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 10:04:42 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from Unknown/Local ([?.?.?.?]) by mailcity.com; Sat Apr 7 07:04:26 2001 To: "Speakup Group List" Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 10:04:26 -0400 From: "duane M suthern" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: on Reply-To: suthern@lycos.com X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: boot hangs at "Loading speakup........." X-Sender-Ip: 63.16.66.14 Organization: Lycos Mail (http://mail.lycos.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: I'm setting up a Slackware 7.1 computer for a blind relative who wants to try Speakup and Linux. I have compiled 2 custom kernels, the only difference between them is one has speakup (ver. 010a) the other doesn't. I have booted the speakup kernel once, everything worked very well. Since then I have not been able to get past the message "Loading speakup......." at which point the computer hangs. I checked the obvious things like making sure the DecTalk Express is powered up and plugged in securely. There is no /etc/speakup.conf file because I can't find what options should go in it, is that file required or will it use defaults? What am I doing wrong please? Note that the second kernel (without speakup) boots just fine. The kernel version is 2.2.18 on a P133 with 48Megs of ram. The System.map file was copied from /usr/src/linux to /boot/System.map where the old map file was located. Thanks, dm suthern Get 250 color business cards for FREE! at Lycos Mail http://mail.lycos.com/freemail/vistaprint_index.html