Re: Red Hat 8 and Grub

Re: Red Hat 8 and Grub

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, you will need to modify your /etc/grub.conf. As an example I will 
place my grub.conf in this message for example perposes.
Hope this helps. What you will see is a speakup startup followed by an 
normal startup without speakup for cases when speakup is not  desirible  
such as using my Dectalk express with emacspeak or testing the 
gnome-speech 
dectalk driver, etc.

 # grub.conf generated by 
anaconda #
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=50
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Start with Speakup (2.4.18-14)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi speakup_synth=dectlk
	initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title Normal startup  (2.4.18-14)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi 
 initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
 

wvdial as user

[Ron Marriage]

I would like to dial either wvdial or
/sbin/ifup ppp0
without having to be root.
wvdial is working, as root but I can't dial as a user.

I setup PPP0 and in that gave all users the right to start 
and stop the operation, but this doesn't seem to do the job.

I did setup kppp for my gui users so they don't have to have 
root password to dial ISP.

Thanks
Ron

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Re: Red Hat 8 and Grub

[Ron Marriage]

Thanks, that was what I needed.

Much appreciated.
Ron


Aaron Howell wrote:
> You should have a line that looks something like
> kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.9.x ro root=/dev/hda1
> at the end of that kernel line you put
> speakup_synth=whatever
> where whatever is the keyword for your hardware synth.
> (you will have to edit more than one kernel line if you have more than one kernel installed, obviously.)
> Regards
> Aaron
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:39AM -0500, Ron Marriage wrote:
> 
>>I installed Red Hat 8 and the default boot loader was grub.
>>The Howto tells where and how to add a line to activate 
>>speakup on bootup.
>>
>>Can someone tell me or point me to instructions on how to do 
>>this with grub.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Ron
>>
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Speakup mailing list
>>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> .
> 

Re: Red Hat 8 and Grub

[Aaron Howell]

You should have a line that looks something like
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.9.x ro root=/dev/hda1
at the end of that kernel line you put
speakup_synth=whatever
where whatever is the keyword for your hardware synth.
(you will have to edit more than one kernel line if you have more than one kernel installed, obviously.)
Regards
Aaron
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:39AM -0500, Ron Marriage wrote:
> I installed Red Hat 8 and the default boot loader was grub.
> The Howto tells where and how to add a line to activate 
> speakup on bootup.
> 
> Can someone tell me or point me to instructions on how to do 
> this with grub.
> 
> Thanks
> Ron
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Red Hat 8 and Grub

[Ron Marriage]

I installed Red Hat 8 and the default boot loader was grub.
The Howto tells where and how to add a line to activate 
speakup on bootup.

Can someone tell me or point me to instructions on how to do 
this with grub.

Thanks
Ron