Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo Accessibility <gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o>
Cc: speakup mailing list <speakup@×××××××××××.ca>
Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] speakup and 2.6.37 on gentoo
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:02:08
Message-Id: 20110201163056.GA26245@linux1
1 All,
2
3 gentoo-sources-2.6.37 is in our tree. I do not know when it will be
4 marked stable, but I wanted to go ahead and post a message about the
5 upgrade process for speakup users.
6
7 When you configure a 2.6.37 or newer kernel, you will find speakup in
8 the staging drivers under device drivers in the menu. Be sure to select
9 the speakup core and the synthesizer driver(s) you need. They can either
10 be modules or built in.
11
12 Once the new kernel is compiled and installed, you should be able to
13 boot normally and have speakup start talking.
14
15 That is all there is to the upgrade process. If you want to use a kernel
16 older than 2.6.37, you can keep the app-accessibility/speakup package
17 installed, since it will continue to work for older kernels. But, if you
18 are not interested in older kernels, you do not need this package any
19 longer, so you can unmerge it once you are using 2.6.37 successfully.
20
21 Let me know if you have any questions.
22
23 ---
24 William Hubbs
25 gentoo accessibility team lead
26 williamh@g.o

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Re: [gentoo-accessibility] speakup and 2.6.37 on gentoo Robyn Dawn Hannigan <sonofthejedi@×××××××.nz>