Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: John Robinson <jbr100uk@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] Speakup problem on Gentoo Live CD release 2008.0-r1
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:56:03
Message-Id: 1228172435.8008.20.camel@localhost
1 Hi everyone. I've just joined this list and wonder if anyone can help
2 to resolve the following query:
3
4 I have been running a 64-bit installation of Gentoo for some time now,
5 but am considering changing to a 32-bit installation so as to have
6 access to applications such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, Realplayer and
7 possibly Wine. I have downloaded and burned the Gentoo Live CD -
8 release 2008.0-r1 for the X86 architecture. The CD appears to boot
9 correctly, but try as I might, I cannot get Speakup to work with my
10 Dectalk USB. To install my 64-bit version of Gentoo, I used the Gentoo
11 Live CD release 2007.0 for the X86_64 architecture. At the bootloader
12 command prompt, I typed the following:
13
14 gentoo speakup_synth=dectlk speakup_ser=0
15
16 and Speakup worked fine from then on. Try as I might, I have been
17 unable to achieve this using the Gentoo Live CD release 2008.0-r1 and
18 would be very grateful for any advice. I realise that Speakup can be
19 made to work with software synthesizers such as Festival and it may be
20 that this is the way forward. I am, however, totally in the dark as to
21 how to do this, so any advice would be very much appreciated.
22
23 Many thanks for any help.
24
25 Kind regards,
26
27 John Robinson

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