Hi.

Sorry for the delay in getting back, but from my quick scan of my email from 
the past few days it doesn't look like you've had a response yet (if someone 
else has and I missed it, then I appologise).

There are no docs as such for getting the Gentoo live cd to speak, however 
once you have done so you can then follow the installation guide, with the 
exception of the section regarding building the kernel.

First of all, if you want full speech, i.e. speaking from boot-up to 
shutdown, then Speakup is your best choice.  For a speaking install, you'll 
most likely need one of the supported synthesisers, a list of which can be 
found on the Speakup web site:
http://www.linux-speakup.org/
Assuming you have one of these, then all you need to do is to adapt the 
Gentoo Handbook to your needs, i.e. if it suggests the folllowing line at 
the boot prompt for the live cd:
gentoo scsi=on
all you need to add to that line is the entry to get speakup started; for 
example, if you have an Apollo synthesiser as I do, then the line would 
become:
gentoo scsi=on speakup_synth=apollo
You'll need to read the docs on the Speakup web site to find the code for 
your synthesiser.

Once you have done this, you should find that the system will start talking 
pretty much straightaway but you'll need to hit the control key when it 
starts babbling about your bios, unless you're interested in that kind of 
thing.  When you're doing the install, it's recommended that you don't use 
the genkernel package to create your kernel, but compile the kernel manually 
(the Gentoo handbook explains how to do this).  I'd recommend doing this so 
that you can make sure your new kernel has Speakup support.

If you need any more help or have questions on this lot (I know, it's 
probably confusing but I am writing this at 5 in the morning) please don't 
hesitate to ask.

Cheers.

Toby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jaffar@...>
To: <gentoo-accessibility@g.o>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 5:29 PM
Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] Accessible install of gentoo


Hi.  I am a blind computer user who is new to the linux platform.  Is there 
an accessible way to install gento, and are there any existing docs to help 
me with it?  Cheers!


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