Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo Accessibility <gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] test live cd for amd64
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:06:43
Message-Id: 20090909220641.GA3725@linux1
In Reply to: [gentoo-accessibility] test live cd for amd64 by William Hubbs
1 On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:59:07PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > All,
3 >
4 > there is now a test iso for amd64 which has speakup and brltty included.
5 >
6 > http://mirrors.sfo1.gni.com/Gentoo/ten/livedvd-amd64-10.0-20090909-0915.iso
7 >
8 > When you boot this, it should beep when you get to the boot prompt.
9 > From there, type something like:
10 >
11 > gentoo speakup.synth=xxx speakup_synth.ser=x ...
12 >
13 > to bring up the system with speakup, or,
14 >
15 > gentoo brltty=something [etc]
16 >
17 > to start brltty.
18 >
19 > We need people to test this and report back what they find.
20 >
21 > For any issues you find, please open bugs at http://bugs.gentoo.org and
22 > have them block bug 281827.
23 >
24 > An x86 iso will be out shortly.
25
26 As the name of the image suggests, this iso is too big to burn to a cd,
27 so you will need to burn it to a dvd, or, it should be able to be booted
28 from a usb stick or hard drive.
29
30 --
31 William Hubbs
32 gentoo accessibility team lead
33 williamh@g.o