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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:40:59PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> Actually, the issue is that speakup is not built into the kernel on |
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> distribution media, but it is a set of external modules, similar to how |
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> the alsa drivers were handled before they went mainline. |
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I'm not talking about that aspect. I know SpeakUP can be |
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compiled in as integrated modules. I use the 1.1 version of the ltlk, |
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2.00 version of speakup in Shane's Debian Etch kernel, because it's the |
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version that crashes the least and works the fastest. The latest |
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SpeakUP builds using the ltlk module take a full second or more to begin |
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reading the screen after pressing keypad plus. It is nice having a |
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hardware synth available to correct problems before the software synth |
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boots, but from all I've seen, the hardware synth modules are falling |
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apart. Speakup crashes every time I log onto irc.freenode.net using my |
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hardware synthesizer, Janina's Tripletalk over on the SpeakUP mailing |
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list has stopped working, etc. To make way for software voice |
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synthesis, SpeakUP has become a piece of junk for everything else. |
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Karl Dahlk's Jupiter screen reader can send plaintext to the |
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synthesizers that support that mode of operation, so I plan on compiling |
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in both of them and seeing which is best for the console. Orca in |
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Debian only boots every other login for me as well, which is the main |
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reason I'm dditching Debian for anything but Redhat. I've just started |
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hating Debian is all, I guess. Too many things not working all at the |
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same time, from my router, to my scanner, to my DVD burner, when I'm |
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told at all the other websites like SANE and linuxprinting, that my |
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hardware is supported, and has been for quite some time now. Gentoo |
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sounds like Debian used to be back in the Woody days. edbrowse in Debian |
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is a year old, and Lenny was just frozen a couple months ago, for |
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instance, meaning it may be another two years before it gets anything |
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but a security patch. If Debian wants to repair antiques, that's fine. |
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More power to them. Where accessibility is concerned, where advances in |
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accessibility are happening every day, it's the WRONG distro to be |
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using. Gentoo sounds like the perfect distro for keeping up with the |
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Jones'es. Compiling code is your guy's stock and trade, and I need a |
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computer that works. |
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Michael |