On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 11:02 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > When I reinstall the original fedora core 3 speakup operating system on > this machine later today, what can I tell yum in what way so yum does not > go and update the alsa-project software? The updates on alsa-project > software since February 2005 have imposed a completely effective denial of > service attack on first multimedia functionality and second g.u.i. > accessibility through gnopernicus on this computer. Put "exclude=alsa*" in your /etc/yum.conf so that it applies to all repos? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>