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> From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> |
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> To: gentoo Accessibility <gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o> |
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> Cc: speakup mailing list <speakup@×××××××××××.ca> |
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> Sent: Wed, 2 February, 2011 5:30:56 AM |
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> Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] speakup and 2.6.37 on gentoo |
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> All, |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.37 is in our tree. I do not know when it will be |
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> marked stable, but I wanted to go ahead and post a message about the |
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> upgrade process for speakup users. |
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> When you configure a 2.6.37 or newer kernel, you will find speakup in |
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> the staging drivers under device drivers in the menu. Be sure to select |
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> the speakup core and the synthesizer driver(s) you need. They can either |
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> be modules or built in. |
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> Once the new kernel is compiled and installed, you should be able to |
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> boot normally and have speakup start talking. |
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... snip ... |
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Hello List, |
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Congratulations on finally getting this to staging! 5 years is a lot of |
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patience from the developers. So before anything, all users and hackers |
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deserve many compliments. |
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What doers the software synthesizers stack look like now? Is there any |
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interest in it being tested or is it no longer a viable option? |
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It used to look like |
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kernel |
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|+ speakup.ko with speakup_soft |
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|+ speakup_soft with parameter start=1 |
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|+ espeak installed on system with USE=portaudio |
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|+ speakup package installed on system |
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|+ speech-dispatcher installed on system |
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|+Add speech-dispatcher to a runlevel a |
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|+Add espeakup to runlevel a |
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This worked for a while but stopped in kernel 2..6.32 or so. i tried again |
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a few weeks ago, but speech-dispatcher seems to be not working any longer |
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on ~amd64. If anyone has any idea what the current stack looks like, i |
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would appreciate some pointers. For obvious reasons links websites are |
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preferred but if this is still 'in the back room' then perhaps we might |
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start something about this on the accessibility project page? |
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Depends if there is any interest. |
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All the best anyway, |
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rdh |