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Not sure if this helps, but the boot param to specify a synth that I've |
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always used includes an underscore, not a period. "gentoo |
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speakup_synth=ltlk" for example. |
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Keith |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Derek Roberts [mailto:bigd.vi.guy@×××××.com] |
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Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:46 PM |
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To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o |
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Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] I think gentoo hates me |
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Hi, |
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I've been trying to get Gentoo installed virtually for a while. I'll |
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probably install it on the host too, if I can figure out what the heck |
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is going on. I've downloaded like 4 iso's and haven't been able to get |
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speech on any of them using |
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gentoo speakup.synth=soft |
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For each one, it gives me a command line but no speech, I know I get a |
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command line because |
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speaker-test |
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gives me pink noise. But I give it the control c of death and try |
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espeak hi |
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or |
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espeak |
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hi |
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I don't get any speech. Doing |
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speaker-test |
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after typing espeak and hitting enter doesn't give me pnk noise, so I |
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know I'm in espeak, it just doesn't say anything. The iso's I've tried |
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are the 10.1 dvd (which, after doing a search, I found out didn't have |
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the modules installed properly), the 2009-11-03 minimal, the 10.0 dvd |
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(which, acording to this list, has speakup working) and another |
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minimal, I forget the build date though. My latest is 10.0 and, |
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determined to get something working, I ran |
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gentoo speakup.synth=soft nox dosshd passwd=stuff |
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and accessed my vm that way. Again, I ran speaker-test and got pink |
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noise from my vm, and a lot of errors from my console (I forget what |
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they were but figure they're just because I was running the test from |
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a remote machine), then tried running |
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espeak hi |
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I got no console output and absolutely nothing from my vm. Next I tried |
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modprobe speakup |
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modprobe speakup_soft |
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Both of those gave me an error (I forget what it was, but somethign to |
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do with the module format). But, I was determined to do something with |
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it, speakup working or not, so I went through part of an install. I |
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found that the stage3 tarball and snapshots were not included (this is |
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the 10.0 live dvd, btw) so downloaded them and kept going. I got to |
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the part where you generate a kernel and not wanting to to try it |
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right then, I ran the genkernel script, but when that finished I found |
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none of my commands were showing up in the terminal window, and I |
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didn't get any output, just the livecd prompt. Anyone have any ideas? |
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This is getting rather frustrating, and I probably wouldn't have that |
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problem with the console if speakup would just work... Sorry if this |
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comes across as insulting or anything, I'm just a bit frustrated right |
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now. |
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Thanks. |
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