Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Speakup Issue

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Hunter, what you need to enable in your kernel is the following options.

1. CONFIG_SPEAKUP 
2. CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT or whatever your synthesizer is you should have many options in there.

After this is done emerge espeakup should work.


On Sat, 3 May 2014 12:54:35 -0400
Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz@×××××.com> wrote:

> I wrote that line in, but it did not fix anything. The emerge error
> for espeakup said something about "config_speakup" and
> "config_speakup_soft" not in the kernal, is that what you meant? Sorry
> for the late response.
>
> On 4/26/14, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:52:43PM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> >> Hi all. I've been installing a Gentoo box as a hobby for the past two
> >> weeks, and I'm stuck at the reboot. I've stuck with open-rc and
> >> followed the manual through, but I can't get espeakup to work. When I
> >> emerge it, I get a warning about speakup.synth=soft not being in my
> >> kernel. So I think, okay, I'll emerge speakup and see what happens. No
> >> go: the Speakup is too old for the kernel. The kernel I compiled is a
> >> genkernel, because I didn't see the kernel maker to be real
> >> accessible, because I couldn't tell whether anything was checked or
> >> not. So, how can I get espeakup to function properly?
> >
> > The first thing is that you do not emerge speakup; you need to configure
> > it in your kernel. It is part of the staging drivers.
> >
> > Try adding this line to /etc/conf.d/modules:
> >
> > modules="speakup_soft"
> >
> > If you have espeakup installed and you are using the default kernel
> > configuration, this should work.
> >
> > William
> >
> >
>


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