From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailcity.com(fes.whowhere.com[209.185.123.154]) (1273 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:smtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 12:16:26 -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 09:15:54 2001 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 12:15:54 -0400 From: "duane M suthern" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: off Reply-To: suthern@lycos.com X-Expiredinmiddle: true X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: Re: boot hangs at "Loading speakup........." X-Sender-Ip: 63.16.67.252 Organization: Lycos Mail (http://mail.lycos.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: -- On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 00:37:54 Geoff Shang wrote: >Speakup 0.10A had trouble detecting some synths. You're right, I found the answer in an old post from William Acker. I added the line; append="speakup_synth=dectlk speakup_ser=0" to /etc/lilo.conf under the speakup kernel, ran "lilo" and now it will boot every time. Thank you, sir. IMHO this beats the **** out of emacspeak! My thanks to the authors. Get 250 color business cards for FREE! at Lycos Mail http://mail.lycos.com/freemail/vistaprint_index.html