From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id DCFF61EF69C; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:49:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from server1.shellworld.net (shellworld.net [69.60.117.94]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBF01EF516 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:49:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix, from userid 1024) id 655A922958; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 06:48:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6292922956; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:48:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:48:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: slackware on a fast machine Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Cc: volkerdi@slackware.com X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 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: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:49:02 -0000 I just remembered something and why this is I can't figure. The speakup_ltlk module in speakup.s in slackware and possibly also in the Linux kernel unless it was patched requires a ps/2 keyboard to be used to boot up the computer. I remember on an earlier slackware installation switching out keyboards to a usb keyboard and I couldn't get speech working when trying to boot into slackware until I switched that USB keyboard out for a ps/2 again. In that move, all the ps/2 keyboards I have also got donated. Slackware does respond to a three-fingered salute on the usb keyboard I have and does respond to typing on that keyboard otherwise but that's as far as I can go here. This is using an amd k8 athelon machine too. If I remember properly, this also happened on an intel machine I was using. Now I'm wondering if this happens to any other slackware speakup users using usb keyboards. It could be my particular brand keyboard is the problem or it could be this effects more than one brand and model of usb keyboard I don't know. Aside from that, I can't get any audible indication as to when the boot: prompt comes up on the screen so I don't know if I ever keyed in the boot parameters at the right time during the past few days either. When I get slackware any more, I use bittorrent and let that run overnight and burn DVD's in the afternoon of the next day since the distributor of slackware boxed sets will not package those shrink wrapped sets well enough to prevent breakage of cases and sometimes disks inside those cases and this is happening for people who have a slackware subscription. I'll put archlinux on this 80GB disk and hope Slackware improves a few things eventually. The faq files on slackware.com are outdated in that they don't refelect slackware's move from multiple floppy disk distribution to cd's and DVD's distributions. It is unfortunate the linux-slackware email list on yahoogroups.com had to be closed down since it was being misused by people who didn't even know what Linux is let alone the slackware distribution is but list moderators apparently couldn't manage those problems. I could restart that mailing list and may be able to moderate it, I don't know if a lynx user on linux can do the necessary web work on yahoogroups to moderate lists yet. I have time since retiring from Southern Maryland and the Navy but that could change in a while too. jude