Speakup and Mandrake

Speakup and Mandrake

[Michael]

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michael.ryan@cablerocket.com 

Hello listers:  
Hope everybody had a good Christmas.  
Can the gentleman who created the Mandrake with Speakup distribution send me the complete instructions on how to create a setup of my own? 
Thanks: 

Michael 


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Re: Speakup and Mandrake

[Ron Marriage]

Actually it has all the console tools you could want.
The gui is only a default if you take the default install, 
My wife and son also use the same computer and they are
sighted and like the KDE gui.
It boots into console and they can run startx to get to what
they want.
I've ran with emacspeak for some time now, but want to try
speakup because it gives me access to not only the startup
messages, but also better access to my prefered email and
browser, pine and lynx.

Ron



Kirk Wood wrote:
> 
> One thing I would love to know: why is there much interest in Mandrake? I
> just don't get it. Why bother with a gui if you can't access it? And in
> reading it seems that is the big selling point of the distro: it is
> optimized for the gui.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
> 
> Nowlan's Theory:
>         He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
>         the next freeway exit.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Speakup and Mandrake

[Kirk Wood]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Jason wrote:
> it's other main selling point: it has a hardware detection routine that 
> basically works.

Hmm, perhaps I have had a sheltered computing life. I have only had a few
things ever not detect just fine with installation. And as for detecting
hardware after, I always disable it. Then again I don't add and remove
cards on any regular basis.

=======
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

Nowlan's Theory:
        He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
        the next freeway exit.

Re: Speakup and Mandrake

[Richard Villa]

The only thing I have heard, is that Mandrake has improved performance 
over Redhat.

Richard
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Kirk Wood wrote:

> One thing I would love to know: why is there much interest in Mandrake? I
> just don't get it. Why bother with a gui if you can't access it? And in
> reading it seems that is the big selling point of the distro: it is
> optimized for the gui.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
> 
> Nowlan's Theory:
>         He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
>         the next freeway exit.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Speakup and Mandrake

[Jason]

it's other main selling point: it has a hardware detection routine that 
basically works.

> One thing I would love to know: why is there much interest in Mandrake? I
> just don't get it. Why bother with a gui if you can't access it? And in
> reading it seems that is the big selling point of the distro: it is
> optimized for the gui.

Re: Speakup and Mandrake

[Kirk Wood]

One thing I would love to know: why is there much interest in Mandrake? I
just don't get it. Why bother with a gui if you can't access it? And in
reading it seems that is the big selling point of the distro: it is
optimized for the gui.

=======
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

Nowlan's Theory:
        He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
        the next freeway exit.

Re: Speakup and Mandrake

[Thomas Ward]

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Hi, there isn't much to tell at this point. Have an installed Mandrake 8.1 system, download the source from kernel.org, and build  from source.
Since there is so much interest lately in Mandrake I'll try, the word is try, and make a speakup distribution which everyone can install.
I've never done it before so it is going to be a challenge.

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  From: Michael 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:56 AM
  Subject: Speakup and Mandrake



  Tommy: 
  Could you send me the step by step instructions on how to create a Speakup adapted Mandrake 8.1? 
  As well I would need the site addresses so I can download the components.  
  This is being posted because I don't have your personal email address. 
  Thanks: 
  Michael 


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Speakup and Mandrake

[Michael]

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Tommy: 
Could you send me the step by step instructions on how to create a Speakup adapted Mandrake 8.1? 
As well I would need the site addresses so I can download the components.  
This is being posted because I don't have your personal email address. 
Thanks: 
Michael 


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Re: Speakup and Mandrake

[Tony Baechler]

Hello.  As always, feel free to correct me if I missed something.  I looked 
seriously at Mandrake to determine how difficult it would be to add 
Speakup.  I will admit that I really am new at kernel compiling but I have 
got some kernels to compile before.  Anyway, maybe the source is available 
out there somewhere but I could not find it.  I thought I found it but it 
did not look useable for my purposes.  Likewise with SUSE.  If there is a 
way and someone can outline the necessary files to get and steps involved, 
I would attempt to get Speakup working with other distros.

Re: Speakup and Mandrake

[Thomas Ward]

It is intrresting that you ask. I've just downloaded ttthe 8.1 disks, and
was planning to try my hand at building a full distribution with Speakup in
Mandrake 8.1.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Ryan" <michael.ryan@nf.sympatico.ca>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: Speakup and Mandrake


>
> hello List:
>
> Is there plans to have Speakup to be imported to the latest version of
> Mandrake?
> I haven't got a Linux system up yet. As soon as I get one of my friends
old
> PC's, I'll be making the transition.  By the time it takes for me to get a
> good handle on Linux from an operators point of view, Gnopernicus should
be
> close to being publicly launched.
> I'm hoping that Speakup and Gnopernicus will be able to work hand and
hand.
> Speakup could be used for the partition creation, formatting, installation
> and configuration, while Gnopernicus would be used for GUI accessibility.
>
> kind regards:
> Michael
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Speakup and Mandrake

[Michael Ryan]

hello List:

Is there plans to have Speakup to be imported to the latest version of 
Mandrake?
I haven't got a Linux system up yet. As soon as I get one of my friends old 
PC's, I'll be making the transition.  By the time it takes for me to get a 
good handle on Linux from an operators point of view, Gnopernicus should be 
close to being publicly launched.
I'm hoping that Speakup and Gnopernicus will be able to work hand and hand.
Speakup could be used for the partition creation, formatting, installation 
and configuration, while Gnopernicus would be used for GUI accessibility.

kind regards:
Michael