From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp1.commspeed.net ([216.19.2.40]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ITRBF-0004xy-00 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:54:37 -0400 Received: (qmail 6035 invoked by uid 1034); 6 Sep 2007 23:54:06 -0000 Received: from mmds-216-19-30-69.mm.az.commspeed.net (HELO YOUR3ADE1B78A3) (216.19.30.69) by smtp1.commspeed.net with SMTP; 6 Sep 2007 23:54:06 -0000 Message-ID: <000c01c7f0e1$2ff03e10$6501a8c0@YOUR3ADE1B78A3> From: "Keith Hinton" To: Subject: Speakup and kernel 2.6.22.x and a question Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:53:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:54:38 -0000 Okay, I have a question relating to Speakup, the latest 2.6.22.x versions of the kernel, and was wondering something very basic. I just need a yes or a simple no, nothing fancey. So, does anyone know if Gentoo itself has picked up Speakup again? I believe Gentoo utilized speakup itself from CVS (wich is no longer supported thanks to Kirk's posting) and therefore think that they will like Ubuntu never pick it up again, GRML may follow, shortly, with is a huge shame, and a waist if people do not switch over to Git, etc. If people can still build Speakup into the main kernel through Git, (and if git becomes less experimental and more or less the new stable way for Speakup to be built into the kernel) as Gentoo does with there kernels, then I believe Speakup mmay be possible for including again. However, before that is possible, Kirk or someone else working closely with Kirk, must include the possibility for Speakup built into the kernel to have every single synthesizer driver supported (including, but not necessarily limited to, BNS, DecTalk Express, etc.) Gentoo-sources, as of 2.6.21, and back specifically had support for every single syntehsizer, mainly. While this may not be practical, I to, hope that the day rappidly aproaches that anyone can build a Linux system (even LFS) and download the latest kernel, with the Speakup code already present in all future kernels, and then Kirk's large work load will only be to ensure that everything works as expected. Comments, suggestions? Thanks! Regards, --Keith.