Installing Speakup on a Notebook with Slackware 4.0

["Georgina Joyce" <gena visson freeserve co uk>]

Hi All

I wondered if anyone could help?  I've managed, several times, to install
Slackware 4 on a 128 Mb partition on my Compaq Amarda 1100 Notebook, using
Speakup.

Firstly, I couldn't complete the installation because the text.gz file I
used did not match the other files.  So I used the text.gz from my CD and it
works very well.  However, the bareide.lt file is kernel 2.1.10 and my
installation uses the 2.2.6 kernel.  Consequently, if I use loadlin with
bareide.lt I get speech but I also get a number of errors because module
files cannot be found.  So I need to install Speakup to the 2.2.6 kernel.
I've installed parts of the a,ap, d and tcl disk sets.  I'm confident that I
have all the tools I need to install Speakup.  However, I can't do it.  I
can't find the Slackware 4.0 specific documentation for recompiling the
kernel.  To ensure that everything was working I booted by using lilo and
loaded Svlpro and a BNS to attempt the installation of Speakup.  However,
the BNS crashed several times, I guess because text went scrolling up the
screen.  The speech I did get seemed to indicate that no hugs were made
successfully.  I also got several prompts for a filename. I didn't know what
to do so I pressed enter and so it went on.

So now I'm thinking that I have 2 choices:

Find some more courage and try again with a little help.  Or find a generic
Slackware 2.2.6 Kernel with the Speakup driver already built in.

Therefore friends; Is there anyone who has installed Speakup 0.07 on a
Slackware 4.0 system and willing to give me some guidance on the
installation procedure?  Or, is there a ready to use Kernel that I can
download?

Thank you

Gena J
gena visson freeserve co uk
gena j thefree net
g joyce uclan ac uk