Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Speakup Issue

[Hunter Jozwiak]

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
>
>